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Thanksgiving Word Games

November 25, 2021 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Thanksgiving Word Games

In the United States it is Thanksgiving. That means gratitude, family and food. The iconic dish is roasted turkey and it is accompanied by all the side dishes (which personally, I find to be the real stars of the show).

Even in holiday food there are classifications. And to tickle my tendency towards the odd taxonomy I found these and thought I’d share with my fellow bibliophiles (and those OCD-leaning peeps).

This first one is more than a play with classifications, it is also a board game. Just another one of my favorite things.

It is actually a fun Thanksgiving speech therapy game using synonyms and antonyms, analogies and categories. It reminds me of spelling bees and vocabulary quizzes in school. This could be a fun task to engage after the heavy meal.

The other one is a plant taxonomy for an alternative vegetarian Thanksgiving meal. By creating classifications and alternatives to traditional foods, it shows the reach of a controlled vocabulary.

In real-life business applications, a controlled vocabulary is needed to ensure that the machine-assisted or fully automated indexing is comprehensive, regardless of what you are indexing. Access Innovations is one of a very small number of companies able to help its clients generate ANSI/ISO/W3C-compliant taxonomies to make their information findable.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Melody K. Smith

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.