blog posts Small Latin and less Greek were good enough for Shakespeare, but some Brits want to rid English of its classical roots Nov 10, 2008 11:00 pm1650 views Sliced Bread 2.0: Is the internet all it's cracked up to be? Feb 22, 2010 12:30 am2896 views Size matters: Bilinguals have bigger brains Nov 6, 2006 10:45 pm2872 views Siri, take a sonnet . . . (or, what if Shakespeare had a speech-to-text app on his quill pen?) Jun 25, 2013 10:45 pm1457 views Singular they is word of the year Nov 19, 2015 1:30 pm16882 views Siberian town bans "I don't know." Violators will be sent to . . . Siberia Sep 7, 2007 12:06 am1151 views Should ze be in the dictionary? Oct 19, 2016 6:15 pm1403 views Should we fear a world without books? Jan 26, 2009 9:49 pm2762 views Should everybody write? Or is there enough junk on the internet already? Mar 8, 2010 11:15 pm7340 views Should Barack Obama, the first digital president, have to give up Twitter? Nov 16, 2008 7:35 pm770 views Shopping while Spanish in Montana Dec 3, 2020 10:30 am6016 views "She" -- Chelsea Manning and the first-ever court-ordered pronoun Mar 6, 2015 4:15 pm596 views Shakespeare's Birthday is 'Talk Like Shakespeare Day' in Chicago, methinks Apr 20, 2009 7:45 pm1783 views Semantic State of the Union Jan 24, 2007 12:25 am1168 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 Say goodbye to the decade with no name Dec 15, 2009 11:30 pm1643 views ROBOT TEACHERS!!! -- Coming soon, to a classroom near you!!! Jul 11, 2010 4:45 pm6422 views Roadside bomb: Word of the Year for 2006 Dec 10, 2006 3:15 pm1700 views Revising our freedom: Digital archeology and Jefferson's rough draft of the Declaration of Independence Jul 6, 2010 3:15 pm5109 views Resistance may be futile: Are there alternatives to Global English? Sep 23, 2011 6:15 pm4002 views Researchers: IM definitely infectious, but associated linguistic damage short-lived, haha Apr 25, 2008 7:15 pm2657 views Researchers find swearing has health benefits. If you're in pain, curse twice and call me in the morning Jul 15, 2009 5:15 pm8851 views Republicans want EEOC to speak only English Dec 13, 2007 1:30 am1177 views Reinventing English: Why plain language isn't so simple Mar 9, 2007 12:12 am1426 views Read my lips: It's easier to understand someone after you've seen them speak May 22, 2008 11:30 am2159 views Read all about it: Reading on the rise as economy falters Jan 13, 2009 5:45 pm1952 views Quebec language police order Irish pub to get rid of English Feb 19, 2008 11:15 pm1653 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 Protestors shouting "Apples are red!" demand an end to socialized education Sep 3, 2009 4:54 pm2019 views Protecting English one beer at a time, or, how do you say 'Bud Light' in Flemish? Jul 28, 2008 12:10 am3177 views Pronouns on TV: pop culture meets inclusive language Aug 1, 2020 11:45 am2157 views Pronouns and the law Oct 10, 2019 1:45 pm13078 views Pronoun backlash Oct 4, 2020 12:00 pm22128 views President sends Americans to the dictionary Dec 11, 2010 4:30 pm3606 views Presidential candidates: speaking Spanish now, but will they forget it after the test? Jun 18, 2007 5:47 pm2067 views Post on Facebook, go directly to jail? Dec 3, 2014 4:00 pm1305 views Poll shows 1 in 4 Americans don't read books. But books aren't everything . . . Aug 22, 2007 12:02 am2266 views Politics and the English Language: 2016 Primary Edition Apr 1, 2016 12:15 am3657 views Pluto re-enters underworld Aug 25, 2006 6:15 pm1490 views Plain English: It’s the Law Feb 1, 2014 10:45 am2665 views Pig-gate: any way you spin it, lipstick on a pig is politics as usual Sep 10, 2008 10:45 pm1430 views Pentagon tells soldiers, "We have ways of making you talk" Jan 7, 2009 11:20 am721 views Pentagon declares foreign language a weapon. O.K., maggots, drop and give me 50 conjugations Jan 30, 2007 12:21 pm1359 views Pens and pencils down: NYC bans tests about dinosaurs, birthdays, and rock-n-roll Mar 30, 2012 6:45 pm1743 views Owner of veggie fast food stand bans English Mar 31, 2008 10:44 pm966 views On the internet, nobody knows you can't spell Nov 24, 2010 10:30 am3763 views On the birthday of the (legal) generic masculine, let's declare it legally dead Feb 24, 2016 1:00 pm4741 views On the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's speech, will the real Gettysburg Address please stand up? Nov 16, 2013 1:45 pm4572 views On National Writing Day . . . . the NSA is tracking what you write Oct 20, 2013 4:00 pm858 views On National Handwriting Day we celebrate handwriting because it’s no longer important Jan 23, 2014 7:11 pm1208 views