Let’s give the once and future 27th letter of the alphabet its due
Tag Archives: english language
A dictionary editor’s concession: Language is ‘really squishy’
A Q&A with Kory Stamper, an editor at Merriam-Webster and author of ‘Word By Word,’ on profanity, and the politics of language
REVIEW: The Story of English in 100 Words
Book by David Crystal
Why you’ll never be an alumni
Prof. Pettigrew makes the case for proper usage
Why students should care about spelling
Its not 4 the reasonz u thynk
YouTube: behind the music!
Those of us who are pretty severely colour-blind are familiar with a certain kind of conversation that takes place when a normally-sighted person discovers our affliction; after a brief quiz, the moment always arrives when the normal finds himself trying to ask “So what do things look like to you?” and (quickly or slowly) realizes that it is impossible to share pure perceptions by means of natural language.
An Anglo truce
Is the era of fighting over Quebec language laws officially over?
My annual list of Banished Year-End Promotional Exercises
Our blogger takes issue with the 2009 banished word list’s inclusion of Tweet, bromance and friend as a verb