Victor Wishna's work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Baltimore Sun, the New York Post, NPR, KCMetropolis.org, and others. His writing and editing services firm, The Vital Word helps find the right words for nonprofit, corporate, and individual clients. Follow him on Twitter: @vwishna.
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On the heels of a recent study that contends our language is dying, some startling new research indicates that, in ...
Back in the late 20th Century, during my college freshman orientation, we had a visit from a linguist specializing in ...
Words are dying, and you probably aren’t doing anything to stave off the epidemic. How many times have you blindly ...
Before I share this news… Are you sitting down? At your computer? Okay. Look at your keyboard. All those letters ...
So I happened to catch Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on cable the other night—the 2005 Tim Burton/Johnny Depp version, ...
Caught an interesting bit on NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” this week (turns out it was a replay from July, ...
By now, if you’ve been exposed to any form of media at all in the last week, you’re likely familiar ...
Your name doesn’t have to be Siri for you to realize that the latest communications technology and spelling don’t always ...