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Planet Word and Award-Winning Correspondent Emily Hanford Partner for Public Dialogues Exploring Literacy and Literacy Instruction as Part of a New, Two-Year Museum Residency
Planet Word, the museum of language, announces that Emily Hanford, the acclaimed host of the influential podcast “Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong,” will serve…
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Planet Word and Award-Winning Correspondent Emily Hanford Partner for Public Dialogues Exploring Literacy and Literacy Instruction as Part of a New, Two-Year Museum Residency
Planet Word, the museum of language, announces that Emily Hanford, the acclaimed host of the influential podcast “Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong,” will serve…
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Planet Word Appoints Nikki DeJesus Sertsu as its Next Executive Director
Planet Word, the interactive museum of language, today announced that Nikki DeJesus Sertsu will serve as its next Executive Director, effective November 1. Currently the museum’s Senior Director of Exhibits…
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Planet Word Unveils a New Installation Focused on Dyslexia and a New Learning Series Highlighting Literacy Research
Coinciding with Dyslexia Awareness Month, this October, Planet Word, the museum of language, will launch new offerings that explore critical topics in literacy acquisition: “Inside Look: Dyslexia,” an interactive station…
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Perhaps ironically, the word “sesquipedalophobia” means “the fear of long words.” -
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“Contronyms” are words that contain multiple meanings that are complete opposites of each other. For example, “oversight” means both “the action of overseeing something” and “a failure to notice something.” -
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There are over 7,000 languages worldwide, but more than half the world’s population speaks only 23 of these languages. -
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The first entirely artificial language was the Lingua Ignota, a private mystical cant recorded in the 12th century by St. Hildegard of Bingen. -
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The 10 most-used letters in English are E, A, R, I, O, T, N, S, L, and C. -
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Eels, llamas, and aardvarks, ooh my! In English, there are only four letters that appear as double letters at the beginning of a word: A, E, L, and O. -
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A “deipnosophist” is a person who’s really good at making conversation at the dinner table. -
How do you get a dog to stop eating your books?
Take the words right out of its mouth! -
What's the difference between a cat and a comma?
A cat has claws at the end of its paws, but a comma’s a pause at the end of a clause. -
The past, the present, and the future walk into a bar...
It was tense. -
Is there a word that uses all the vowels including y?
Unquestionably. -
Riddle me this
What did the intransitive verb say when told it was pretty? (Answer: Nothing. Intransitive verbs can’t take complements.) -
Riddle me this
What does an island and the letter T have in common? (Answer: They’re both in the middle of water.) -
Riddle me this
What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it? (Answer: Short) -
Riddle me this
What starts with an E, ends with an E, and contains just one letter? (Answer: An envelope!) -
Riddle me this
What begins with a T, ends with a T, and has T in it? (Answer: A teapot!) -
Riddle me this
What’s in centuries, hours, and years, but not minutes, days, or seconds? (Answer: The letter R!) -
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“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” — Groucho Marx -
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“The past is always tense, the future perfect.” — Zadie Smith -
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“If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.” — Toni Morrison -
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“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies...The man who never reads lives only once.” — George R.R. Martin -
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“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.” — Nelson Mandela