blog posts Speak English, get out of jail free Mar 27, 2008 9:00 pm16722 views Second Amendment grammar -- the Framers parsed it one way, but will the Supreme Court agree with their analysis? Mar 16, 2008 8:30 pm17422 views Happy Birthday, Henry Fowler: inventor of that/which rule is 150 today Mar 8, 2008 12:11 am5635 views Just words: Is it plagiarism, homage, or business as usual when public figures like Obama and Clinton "forget" to footnote? Feb 21, 2008 4:15 pm1088 views Quebec language police order Irish pub to get rid of English Feb 19, 2008 11:15 pm1653 views Doomsday machine? Engineers devise model to predict when your language is going to die . . . Feb 15, 2008 5:00 pm1214 views No more Autobus Magico, as Nevada school district bans Spanish on the bus Feb 4, 2008 12:09 am2163 views Good handwriting still important . . . for that successful stick-up note Feb 2, 2008 12:45 am6301 views Is the internet killing literacy, or pumping new life into it? Jan 26, 2008 7:00 pm1608 views A language kept alive on life support, literally Jan 19, 2008 12:30 pm2893 views Estonia contest will determine world's most beautiful language. Will it be Estonian? Jan 15, 2008 11:15 pm5819 views Yo! A new gender-neutral pronoun from, of all places, Baltimore Jan 8, 2008 11:30 pm12155 views Malay Government tells non-Muslims they can't say "Allah" Jan 1, 2008 3:15 pm3046 views U.N. proclaims 2008 the International Year of Languages Dec 30, 2007 1:15 am1818 views The word of the year for 2007 is English Dec 16, 2007 4:15 pm2808 views Grass station, locavore and w00t: we need a better word of the year for 2007 Dec 14, 2007 12:46 pm855 views Republicans want EEOC to speak only English Dec 13, 2007 1:30 am1177 views No translations please, we're British Dec 8, 2007 12:15 am2012 views Not just freedom fries at this English-only drive-in? Nov 23, 2007 2:45 pm4730 views Sorry, Dr. House. Study correlates neat handwriting with academic success Nov 5, 2007 10:45 pm5675 views Washoe, chimp who learned sign language, dies at 42 without signing good-bye Nov 2, 2007 1:30 pm19953 views WTF? Swearing at work is good for business Oct 22, 2007 11:15 pm1867 views Vatican 2.2? Wichita Catholic School goes English-only Oct 21, 2007 11:30 pm2607 views Language is a facade. So is an official language. Oct 18, 2007 9:02 pm1181 views Spell the American way on National Dictionary Day Oct 16, 2007 11:57 pm3447 views Domo arigato, Dr. Roboto: Researchers prove rats can't understand Japanese backwards. Can you? Oct 6, 2007 1:43 pm1988 views George Bush hooked on phonics at U.N. (that's YOO-en) Sep 27, 2007 2:25 pm1889 views Japan's government politely lobbies to return English words Sep 23, 2007 11:48 pm2239 views The boy who spoke . . . Young muggle awakes from brain surgery with new accent Sep 19, 2007 12:05 am2928 views English-only vs. Spanish in Univision's presidential debate Sep 9, 2007 9:23 pm2391 views Siberian town bans "I don't know." Violators will be sent to . . . Siberia Sep 7, 2007 12:06 am1151 views Put a nickel on the drum, but no pesos. At the Salvation Army, it's all-English, all-the-time Aug 25, 2007 11:35 pm2203 views Poll shows 1 in 4 Americans don't read books. But books aren't everything . . . Aug 22, 2007 12:02 am2266 views Watching TV delays infant language, but don't touch that dial . . . Aug 14, 2007 10:44 pm2386 views Banning bitch and ho: If words are outlawed, only outlaws will have words Aug 8, 2007 1:08 pm3111 views High cost of English got you down? Speak Esperanto and save Jul 23, 2007 3:41 pm1832 views Monolingualism: the native language of intolerance? Jul 19, 2007 11:31 am3635 views What to name the baby? Forget grandma, hire a consultant Jul 15, 2007 12:05 am1963 views Bong Hits 4 Jesus: High Court rules that students who mention drugs are pushing them Jun 25, 2007 11:08 pm9484 views U.S. Army's latest slogan: We speak Farsi so you don't have to Jun 19, 2007 3:51 pm5028 views Presidential candidates: speaking Spanish now, but will they forget it after the test? Jun 18, 2007 5:47 pm2067 views The new voice of immigration reform: First speak English, then maybe we'll let you in Jun 17, 2007 4:35 pm1970 views Federal Appeals Court rules you can swear on the air, but only for the hell of it Jun 7, 2007 2:50 pm2498 views McDonald's tells Webster, "Take this McJob and shove it" Jun 7, 2007 2:05 pm1598 views Spelling counts at the Spelling Bee, but in the age of the Internet, should it count anywhere else? May 31, 2007 11:30 pm1346 views Bee Season: The annual spelling bee brings out protesters as well as nerds May 30, 2007 10:30 pm1710 views Army tells gay translators, don't tell, or don't translate May 25, 2007 1:15 pm1593 views CSI: Quebec -- Provincial tongue troopers on the trail of illegal English May 24, 2007 3:15 pm1449 views Don't show and tell: Army puts PR videos on YouTube while blocking the site on its own computers May 14, 2007 5:00 pm1089 views Language goes to war: Pentagon launches Language Corps May 13, 2007 10:15 pm1194 views