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My Top 5 Most Overused Words3 comments

Planet R. wrote 1 month ago: If we are to believe the Global Language Monitor, there are now more than 1 million words in the Eng … more →

Tags: General, Global Language Monitor, WorDs, English, language, Sorry!, Umm, Like, Stuff

A Word By Any Other Name

showingoffmyassets wrote 4 months ago: Like many of you, I’m guilty of over-using  words or phrases in my daily life.  CNN.com did a … more →

Tags: English language, Humor, Vocabulary, WorDs

Wordle--An Unexpected Tool for Revision

Fiction Groupie wrote 5 months ago: A while back, someone mentioned wordle.net in the comment section of a blog I read (I can’t re … more →

Tags: writing, Books, Author, book, wordle, Revision, Revising, Editing, Novel

hold your tongue1 comment

davidelliot wrote 9 months ago: Words I use all too often in my writing: like just really and so pretty cool … more →

Tags: Gripes/Rants, writing, Like, just, Really, And..., Verbal, vocubulary, Speech

Thank you for Issues and Tissues2 comments

leakelley wrote 10 months ago: Allow me to issue the following warning. After reading the latest issue of Psycho Today—or The Daily … more →

Tags: Life, Humor, emotional evolution, language, Funny, honesty, Behavior, Communication, Lea Kelley

Tiresome Words

mediamelon wrote 11 months ago: Okay, so this is old news. Two weeks ago, Lake Superior State University released its annual list of … more →

Tags: language, Saskatoon Star Phoenix, Banned Words, blooper headline, lake superior state university

Stop the monetization! Now!16 comments

Bing wrote 1 year ago: Well, let’s see. We’ve killed Quality. Excellence is gone forever. And with the advent o … more →

Tags: Eliot Spitzer, Rod Blagojevich, Monetization

Word retirement review1 comment

ableanna wrote 1 year ago: Too often heard coming out of my mouth: Ridiculous Awesome Amazing You know? Cute Neat Apparently … more →

Tags: YEP, Dead To Me, On Notice, Thesaurus, slang

stop the word-boarding torture

angryxer wrote 1 year ago: George Packer over at the New Yorker revolts against the language abuse (h/t Sullivan):   When this … more →

Tags: Sarah Palin, 2008 Election, John McCain, Barack Obama, Palinisms, George Packer, New Yorker, campaign language, Cliches

The overused word of the century31 comments

Bing wrote 1 year ago: I was at a meeting yesterday, one of those painful presentations where a guy comes in, does twenty m … more →

Tags: bingstuff, leverage

Words You Use Too Much.15 comments

Tei wrote 1 year ago: We all have them. I know someone who says ‘you know’ whenever he needs a space filler. I … more →

Tags: writing, Copywriting

I'm still working on it3 comments

Laurie Cosbey wrote 1 year ago: Hi, I sit up here on the black leather couch, legs folded in lotus, leaning forward over my laptop. … more →

Tags: writing, Editing, new deadline


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