Advisory Board Archives — Planet Word Museum The museum where language comes to life Mon, 29 Jan 2024 22:24:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://planetwordmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-PW_Logo_BLUE_circle-2-1-32x32.png Advisory Board Archives — Planet Word Museum 32 32 Choosing the 2023 Word of the Year: Q&A with Ben Zimmer and Kelly Wright https://planetwordmuseum.org/choosing-the-2023-word-of-the-year-qa-with-ben-zimmer-and-kelly-wright/ Thu, 18 Jan 2024 21:43:25 +0000 https://planetwordmuseum.org/?p=8015 Since 1990, the American Dialect Society has annually unveiled a Word of the Year — a newly prominent word that reflects significant events, societal shifts, and prevailing themes over the…

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]]> What Makes a Great Love Song? https://planetwordmuseum.org/what-makes-a-great-love-song/ Thu, 09 Feb 2023 17:51:29 +0000 https://planetwordmuseum.org/?p=6532 “The Love Song is the noise of love itself.” — Nick Cave, Australian musician (from a lecture delivered at the Atelierhaus der Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, Vienna on September 25,…

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]]> The Language Science Station at Planet Word https://planetwordmuseum.org/the-language-science-station-at-planet-word/ Thu, 23 Jun 2022 19:56:02 +0000 https://planetwordmuseum.org/?p=5703 The following is a guest blog post written by Dr. Charlotte Vaughn and Hannah Mechtenberg.   In this guest blog, we’re delighted to introduce you to the Language Science Station,…

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]]> Putin, Bush, and Pronouns: Presaging War? https://planetwordmuseum.org/putin-bush-and-pronouns-presaging-war/ Tue, 22 Feb 2022 00:58:13 +0000 https://planetwordmuseum.org/?p=4709 Can linguistics help predict a war? This past weekend, Planet Word Advisor James Pennebaker and his colleagues Ryan Boyd and Ashwini Ashokkumar posted a short article on their blog, Wordwatchers,…

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]]> Empathy, Art, and Telling Important Stories: Q&A with Jason Reynolds https://planetwordmuseum.org/empathy-art-and-telling-important-stories-q-a-with-jason-reynolds/ Tue, 30 Oct 2018 04:00:00 +0000 http://planetwordmuseum.org/empathy-art-and-telling-important-stories-q-a-with-jason-reynolds/ Long Way Down—Jason Reynolds’s bestselling novel in verse—makes its way to the Kennedy Center. Reynolds, a member of Planet Word’s Advisory Board, talked to us about empathy, the theatrical adaptation…

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]]> Five Obscure(ish) Words for Crossword Puzzlers https://planetwordmuseum.org/five-obscureish-words-for-crossword-puzzlers/ Fri, 17 Nov 2017 05:00:00 +0000 http://planetwordmuseum.org/five-obscureish-words-for-crossword-puzzlers/ Read up on the five words that New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz thinks you should know, then try your hand at a puzzle made by the Planet Word team!

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