blog posts Literally has always been figurative Aug 23, 2013 9:00 pm27588 views Louisiana school district may require English-only valedictory addresses -- why not call them bye-bye speeches instead, to avoid all foreign-language entanglements? Jul 1, 2008 10:15 pm2259 views LPGA to golfers: speak English or get off the tour Aug 28, 2008 11:45 pm1203 views Malay Government tells non-Muslims they can't say "Allah" Jan 1, 2008 3:15 pm3046 views March 10: The telephone is 133 years old today. Call me. Mar 9, 2009 9:00 pm2632 views Marriage equality, guns, health care, and the myth of judicial objectivity Jun 29, 2015 1:15 am536 views McDonald's tells Webster, "Take this McJob and shove it" Jun 7, 2007 2:05 pm1598 views Microsoft Word's Wokeness checker is asleep on the job Jan 15, 2022 8:00 am2436 views Miranda and the Louisiana Lawyer Dog: a case of talking while black Nov 4, 2017 10:00 am14173 views Monkey grammar Jul 10, 2009 1:00 am4636 views Monolingualism: the native language of intolerance? Jul 19, 2007 11:31 am3635 views Montreal bus driver celebrates 40 years of official bilingualism by throwing English-speaking passenger off her bus Sep 11, 2009 11:45 pm12010 views MSKGB? Microsoft and the Secret Police Sep 13, 2010 3:30 pm1859 views Multitasking: learning to teach and text at the same time Jan 21, 2010 8:15 pm12148 views My birthday word is "gobbledygook," the perfect gift for a writer May 9, 2014 6:00 pm4913 views National Grammar Day in Wartime Mar 3, 2013 10:15 am3493 views National Handwriting Day -- a web-only special Jan 23, 2007 8:39 pm1266 views National Punctuation Day Sep 24, 2006 9:30 pm2993 views New Jersey High School bans foreign languages, then eats its words Feb 6, 2009 10:00 pm6133 views New military strategy: if GI's won't learn their verbs, try teaching linguists to shoot Dec 25, 2008 7:45 pm1126 views New words are great for back to school Aug 26, 2011 9:30 am2062 views Nieuw Amsterdam wants to make Dutch its official language Jul 19, 2010 12:30 am3858 views Noah the Lexicographer finds Republican candidates' words lack . . . definition Oct 29, 2008 11:15 pm862 views Noah Webster at 250: a visionary or a crackpot? After all, he brought us ax and plow, but also deef and bridegoom Oct 15, 2008 12:47 am4090 views Noah Webster’s Word of the Year for 1828 was torture, too Dec 19, 2014 2:30 pm2258 views Nobody likes a whistleblower, wrayer, snitch, narker, denunciator, quadruplator, or emphanist Feb 23, 2014 5:45 pm3949 views No more Autobus Magico, as Nevada school district bans Spanish on the bus Feb 4, 2008 12:09 am2163 views Nonbinary pronouns are older than you think Oct 13, 2018 5:15 pm64656 views Note to English-only group that can't spell "conference": Presidential candidates in Kyrgyzstan have to pass a test in their official language. Could you pass a test in English? Jun 21, 2009 12:30 pm1770 views Not just freedom fries at this English-only drive-in? Nov 23, 2007 2:45 pm4730 views No translations please, we're British Dec 8, 2007 12:15 am2012 views NPR Poll: Americans don’t want to be politically correct. Tote bag, anyone? Dec 23, 2018 12:30 pm3090 views Obama supports foreign languages and has a foreign-sounding name; but as politicians go, that's not so unusual Jul 24, 2008 2:45 am1996 views Occupy Wall Street: Can the revolution be trademarked? Oct 28, 2011 12:15 am2251 views OED hearts OMG Apr 8, 2011 8:30 pm4320 views Official English in Bogota, New Jersey? Aug 24, 2006 11:41 pm1525 views OMG, OMG, text messages actually improve spelling Sep 11, 2006 10:28 pm2212 views On Dictionary Day, take a banned word to lunch Oct 16, 2013 1:30 pm1209 views On National Grammar Day, stop acting like the earth is flat Mar 4, 2016 12:00 am6577 views On National Handwriting Day we celebrate handwriting because it’s no longer important Jan 23, 2014 7:11 pm1208 views On National Writing Day . . . . the NSA is tracking what you write Oct 20, 2013 4:00 pm858 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 the birthday of the (legal) generic masculine, let's declare it legally dead Feb 24, 2016 1:00 pm4741 views On the internet, nobody knows you can't spell Nov 24, 2010 10:30 am3763 views Owner of veggie fast food stand bans English Mar 31, 2008 10:44 pm966 views Pens and pencils down: NYC bans tests about dinosaurs, birthdays, and rock-n-roll Mar 30, 2012 6:45 pm1743 views Pentagon declares foreign language a weapon. O.K., maggots, drop and give me 50 conjugations Jan 30, 2007 12:21 pm1359 views Pentagon tells soldiers, "We have ways of making you talk" Jan 7, 2009 11:20 am721 views Pig-gate: any way you spin it, lipstick on a pig is politics as usual Sep 10, 2008 10:45 pm1430 views Plain English: It’s the Law Feb 1, 2014 10:45 am2665 views