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  1. Win a Barnes & Noble giftcard and help CDP! Check out T. Katz's new contest: http://tinyurl.com/macfqq
  2. 9/12 Crossword Tournament in Alameda. 9/14-20 shop eBay and give at checkout to CDP. Oakland Dictionary Day 10/15. http://tinyurl.com/krdbdx
  3. Visit us 8/8: Take Flight for Kids, Reid-Hillview Airport, San Jose. Dine for dictionaries 8/9 @ Rubio's. Coupon: http://tinyurl.com/krdbdx
  4. CDP is expanding and needs your help! Please donate on our Facebook Causes page http://bit.ly/aAM9w Thanks!
  5. RT @wordexplorer Word of the Day, Scrabble Word of the Day, and other "Day" words (e.g., Weird Word Wednesday and Misspelling Monday).
  6. How could California Dictionary Project make microvolunteering work? http://tinyurl.com/luktqg
  7. 2nd Annual Bay Area Crossword Tournament, Sept 12, Alameda. Now $20, $25 after 6/30, $30 @ door. Beneficiary: CDP. http://tinyurl.com/q53vxb
  8. The Oxford English Dictionary, first published in its entirety in 1928, took 50 years to complete! #sf #cali #dictionary
  9. California Dictionary Project now has a LinkedIn group...please join us http://www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/2049456/
  10. The oldest existing Japanese dictionary, the ca. 835 CE Tenrei Banshō Meigi, was also a glossary of written Chinese.
  11. FYI. The first purely English alphabetical dictionary was A Table Alphabeticall, written by English schoolteacher Robert Cawdrey in 1604.
  12. Are you on Facebook? So is the California Dictionary Project! Please join us there...http://tinyurl.com/n9a36v
  13. The dictionary's dictionary (not counting the OED): DARE - Dictionary of American Regional English - on NPR: http://tinyurl.com/mtaphb
  14. Book auction: Saratoga Book-Go-Round 6/7-14 or www.BookGoRound.com. Benefiting BGR, Saratoga CA library's all-volunteer, all-donations store
  15. "oe" is a legal word in Scrabble. Who knew?
  16. Sign up for the Second Annual Bay Area Crossword Puzzle Tournament - big prizes! big fun! http://tinyurl.com/q53vxb
  17. Educators forced to find cuts with more budget cuts coming down the pike, says KQED. Again?? http://tinyurl.com/rxfff4
  18. Looking for volunteers! We just renewed our Volunteer Match listing: volunteermatch.org. Want to help? http://tinyurl.com/krdbdx
  19. "Help support the California Dictionary Project to provide dictionaries to third-graders in CA public schools http://tinyurl.com/krdbdx"
  20. #California students are making significant progress on reading tests. 2009 API scores way up. http://tinyurl.com/po4pbv #SF