blog posts Pluto re-enters underworld Aug 25, 2006 6:15 pm1490 views Politics and the English Language: 2016 Primary Edition Apr 1, 2016 12:15 am3657 views Poll shows 1 in 4 Americans don't read books. But books aren't everything . . . Aug 22, 2007 12:02 am2266 views Post on Facebook, go directly to jail? Dec 3, 2014 4:00 pm1305 views Presidential candidates: speaking Spanish now, but will they forget it after the test? Jun 18, 2007 5:47 pm2067 views President sends Americans to the dictionary Dec 11, 2010 4:30 pm3606 views Pronoun backlash Oct 4, 2020 12:00 pm22128 views Pronouns and the law Oct 10, 2019 1:45 pm13078 views Pronouns on TV: pop culture meets inclusive language Aug 1, 2020 11:45 am2157 views Protecting English one beer at a time, or, how do you say 'Bud Light' in Flemish? Jul 28, 2008 12:10 am3177 views Protestors shouting "Apples are red!" demand an end to socialized education Sep 3, 2009 4:54 pm2019 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 Quebec language police order Irish pub to get rid of English Feb 19, 2008 11:15 pm1653 views Read all about it: Reading on the rise as economy falters Jan 13, 2009 5:45 pm1952 views Read my lips: It's easier to understand someone after you've seen them speak May 22, 2008 11:30 am2159 views Reinventing English: Why plain language isn't so simple Mar 9, 2007 12:12 am1426 views Republicans want EEOC to speak only English Dec 13, 2007 1:30 am1177 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 Researchers: IM definitely infectious, but associated linguistic damage short-lived, haha Apr 25, 2008 7:15 pm2657 views Resistance may be futile: Are there alternatives to Global English? Sep 23, 2011 6:15 pm4002 views Revising our freedom: Digital archeology and Jefferson's rough draft of the Declaration of Independence Jul 6, 2010 3:15 pm5109 views Roadside bomb: Word of the Year for 2006 Dec 10, 2006 3:15 pm1700 views ROBOT TEACHERS!!! -- Coming soon, to a classroom near you!!! Jul 11, 2010 4:45 pm6422 views Say goodbye to the decade with no name Dec 15, 2009 11:30 pm1643 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 Semantic State of the Union Jan 24, 2007 12:25 am1168 views Shakespeare's Birthday is 'Talk Like Shakespeare Day' in Chicago, methinks Apr 20, 2009 7:45 pm1783 views "She" -- Chelsea Manning and the first-ever court-ordered pronoun Mar 6, 2015 4:15 pm596 views Shopping while Spanish in Montana Dec 3, 2020 10:30 am6016 views Should Barack Obama, the first digital president, have to give up Twitter? Nov 16, 2008 7:35 pm770 views Should everybody write? Or is there enough junk on the internet already? Mar 8, 2010 11:15 pm7340 views Should we fear a world without books? Jan 26, 2009 9:49 pm2762 views Should ze be in the dictionary? Oct 19, 2016 6:15 pm1403 views Siberian town bans "I don't know." Violators will be sent to . . . Siberia Sep 7, 2007 12:06 am1151 views Singular they is word of the year Nov 19, 2015 1:30 pm16882 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 Size matters: Bilinguals have bigger brains Nov 6, 2006 10:45 pm2872 views Sliced Bread 2.0: Is the internet all it's cracked up to be? Feb 22, 2010 12:30 am2896 views 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 So how do dictionaries define marriage, anyway? Apr 29, 2015 4:45 pm8423 views So long as we're banning devices from the classroom, let's ban clay tablets as well Nov 25, 2017 2:45 am1906 views Some notes on singular they Sep 14, 2015 6:00 pm7295 views Sorry, Dr. House. Study correlates neat handwriting with academic success Nov 5, 2007 10:45 pm5675 views Spanish Pledge of Allegiance? Oy vey, can you see it's deja vu all over again? Feb 3, 2007 11:45 pm3775 views Speak English, get out of jail free Mar 27, 2008 9:00 pm16722 views Speak English in Arizona, or I'll see you in court Nov 8, 2006 6:00 pm2038 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 Spell the American way on National Dictionary Day Oct 16, 2007 11:57 pm3447 views State threatens to close schools violating official language law Jan 18, 2007 10:29 pm1455 views Stood the course, now what? Favorite Bush slogan is retired Oct 24, 2006 11:00 am1279 views