@VisualThesaurus

An online destination for word lovers.

 New York City
visualthesaurus.com
Joined October 2007
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Bryan A. Garner@BryanAGarner1 May 2016
New review of the just-released Garner's Modern English Usage: visualthesaurus.com/cm/dogea…
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Mark Peters@wordlust6 Apr 2016
Scale the pay wall and read my column on euphemisms! You'll learn about "people with complexities." xitter.cf/VisualThesaurus/status…
Visual Thesaurus@VisualThesaurus6 Apr 2016
Othersourcing All the Right Things bit.ly/23agHf4
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Rick Brutti
@Rbrutti6 Mar 2016
1st time the word jazz was used in an article was 103 years ago today in the San Francisco Bulletin @JazzFoundation visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordr…
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"Life is not a dictionary, it's a thesaurus." -Lupe Fiasco
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Joseph Kimble@ProfJoeKimble15 Feb 2016
For Presidents’ Day, a typo in a George Washington quotation chiseled on the New York State Supreme Courthouse. visualthesaurus.com/cm/bloge…
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Huh! "And 'currants' derive their name from 'raisins of Corinth.'": xitter.cf/fritinancy/status/6793…
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Contrary to popular belief, the term "#BlackFriday" has nothing to do with black ink (or slavery), visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordr… #Etymythology
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Ben Zimmer@bgzimmer18 Nov 2015
Tune in to @LeonardLopate @WNYC at 1 pm ET to hear some enticing etymological explorations. wnyc.org/story/ben-zimmer/
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FU@KellyeWrites16 Nov 2015
Intensive purposes? Slight of hand? When the wrong word just sounds better visualthesaurus.com/cm/wc/wh…
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Visual Thesaurus Educator Review graphite.org/website/visual-… via @graphite I love this website!! Great resource! #neisditech
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Polly Fuhrman@booherpolly8 Oct 2015
Do you enjoy the infinite creativity of the English language, even when people make mistakes? xitter.cf/VisualThesaurus/status…
Visual Thesaurus@VisualThesaurus8 Oct 2015
Eggcorns Finally Get Their Due in Bountiful Book of Malapropisms bit.ly/1Q9lRNP
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MaeveWriter
@MaeveWriter28 Sep 2015
He's had to switch from 'verbiage' to' wordage'—interesting piece on some shibboleths & their uses bit.ly/1Vm1gr9 @mikepope
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#Spelling bee MADNESS, this game will make your #ESL students go nuts and learn :) visualthesaurus.com/bee/
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Jamey Boelhower@jdog902 Sep 2015
English teacher tool, checkout Vocab Grabber visualthesaurus.com/vocabgra… from the #VisualThesaurus. #awesome #engchat #nebedchat #ndedchat
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Is it crazy I love this tool so much! visualthesaurus.com/app/view fb.me/6NDVDJLll
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Paula Johnson@paulajohnson6 Aug 2015
No matter what you're writing, the Visual Thesaurus can help. buff.ly/1KSjnER
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First rule of Thesaurus Club. You don't talk, discuss, converse, speak, chat, confer, deliberate, gab, or gossip about Thesaurus Club.
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ESUJazz@ESUjazz10 Jul 2015
100 years of "JAZZ" !!! Some "Jazzy" Words and "Jazz" History : Department of Word Lists : Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus visualthesaurus.com/cm/wl/so…
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Tomorrow marks the centennial of the first citation for 'jazz' (as music). Lists from @VisualThesaurus & @bgzimmer. xitter.cf/PurdyOxford/status/619…
Christian Purdy@cjPurdyPR10 Jul 2015
Visual Thesaurus on the jazz lexicon: visualthesaurus.com/cm/wl/so… Skiddley wah wah (fingers snapping)
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Barry Popik@barrypopik23 Jun 2015
"Uncle Sam was a real person named Samuel Wilson." Wrong, HuffPo. Wrong. visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordr… huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/2…
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