blog posts The Word of the Year for 2024 Dec 26, 2024 4:00 pm323 views The search for plural ‘you’ Dec 5, 2024 3:45 pm959 views Policing protest speech, part 2: The government would like a word . . . Oct 19, 2024 1:45 pm191 views Policing protest speech Sep 30, 2024 12:45 pm104 views Happy National Grammar Day, to those who celebrate* Mar 3, 2024 12:45 pm1019 views Baron’s Laws of English Usage Feb 16, 2024 4:00 pm261 views The War on Pronouns Apr 4, 2023 10:45 am2525 views Does the First Amendment mean "You can't make me say your pronouns"? Jun 13, 2022 10:00 am11352 views Defining "sanitation" to quash the mask mandate Apr 20, 2022 11:30 am839 views A Strict Constructionist Reads “Don’t say Gay” Apr 8, 2022 11:00 am583 views Microsoft Word's Wokeness checker is asleep on the job Jan 15, 2022 8:00 am2667 views Don’t blame the new French pronoun on Americans Dec 12, 2021 11:15 am4864 views Corpus linguistics, public meaning, and the Second Amendment Jul 20, 2021 1:45 pm4487 views The right's new slogan: My free speech, not yours Mar 30, 2021 11:00 am2471 views It’s National Grammar Day, so stop grammar shaming Mar 3, 2021 9:15 pm4286 views Trump’s words on January 6 were a clear and present danger Feb 16, 2021 11:45 am5447 views Shopping while Spanish in Montana Dec 3, 2020 10:30 am6041 views Will the Supreme Court soon be policing your speech? Nov 20, 2020 11:00 am6502 views Pronoun backlash Oct 4, 2020 12:00 pm22660 views There are no pronouns in the Nineteenth Amendment Aug 12, 2020 12:00 pm3535 views Pronouns on TV: pop culture meets inclusive language Aug 1, 2020 11:45 am2221 views Heer, hiser, himer: Pronouns in the news, 1912 edition Jul 25, 2020 1:30 pm1962 views The oldest genderless pronouns are lo and zo, for French, and e, es, em, for English Jul 16, 2020 1:00 pm3792 views A grammar lesson for Justice Alito Jun 16, 2020 12:00 pm6672 views The French Academy wants you to remember, this virus is feminine May 9, 2020 5:15 pm8635 views Verbing pronouns Apr 20, 2020 10:00 am2200 views It’s National Grammar Day. I can’t even, and you shouldn’t either. Mar 3, 2020 5:30 pm2474 views From they to tey to te: pronoun mansplaining in the 1970s Feb 28, 2020 2:00 pm4055 views It’s National Handwriting Day: there’s an app for that Jan 23, 2020 11:00 am2141 views Will the Word Pedometer make babies smarter? Dec 22, 2019 1:15 pm6260 views Thats all Folks: The Apostrophe Protection Society Gone for Good Dec 2, 2019 7:00 pm1618 views Gender conceal: Did you know that pronouns can also hide someone's gender? Nov 9, 2019 4:15 pm5373 views Grammar-shaming Trump Nov 1, 2019 12:00 pm9800 views Teachers' pronouns Oct 22, 2019 12:15 pm18632 views Pronouns and the law Oct 10, 2019 1:45 pm13134 views The Song of Singular they Sep 14, 2019 1:15 pm1672 views Can a Swedish pronoun cure sexism? Aug 29, 2019 10:45 am2264 views Forget Rees-Mogg, Fowler, and Strunk & White, the arbiter of English today is Autocorrect Jul 31, 2019 11:45 am1321 views Commas don't kill people Jul 23, 2019 3:45 pm17067 views In the event of moon disaster, and other speeches our presidents never gave Jul 17, 2019 10:00 am3584 views Google's Panopticon will make you a better person--just click to agree Jul 13, 2019 12:15 am2533 views It's National Grammar Day, not National Pedant's Day Mar 3, 2019 10:00 pm2407 views What do you call a retired professor? Feb 26, 2019 6:00 pm4882 views NPR Poll: Americans don’t want to be politically correct. Tote bag, anyone? Dec 23, 2018 12:30 pm3126 views In Silicon Valley’s version of the nanny state, the nannies are all offline Oct 28, 2018 10:00 am1303 views Countering the backlash against nonbinary pronouns Oct 16, 2018 11:15 pm15757 views Nonbinary pronouns are older than you think Oct 13, 2018 5:15 pm67015 views International Pronouns Day Oct 9, 2018 10:30 am991 views Hey, you guys, you is already plural Aug 24, 2018 10:15 am16898 views In which Pooh tries a nonbinary pronoun Aug 11, 2018 5:30 pm3992 views