blog posts Killer app: Seven dirty words you can't say on your iPhone Oct 14, 2010 7:45 pm5984 views Kaplan College fires English-only president Jun 4, 2010 11:30 am3911 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 Jose Can You See? National anthem in Spanish--but will the kids dance to it? Aug 18, 2006 3:30 pm1588 views Joe Biden's Obama moment, or, I love it when you talk white to me Feb 6, 2007 11:00 pm3945 views Japan's government politely lobbies to return English words Sep 23, 2007 11:48 pm2239 views It's time to implement Massively Open Online Campus Administration May 3, 2013 6:45 pm3425 views It's time to ban the banned words list Jan 1, 2007 7:30 pm2162 views It’s the birthday of a pronoun: heer, himer, hiser, born OTD in 1912 Jan 5, 2016 3:30 pm3546 views It's not National Typewriter Day Aug 28, 2012 12:00 pm3673 views It's National Writing Day: I wrote today, did you? Oct 20, 2009 11:00 pm5359 views It’s National Handwriting Day: there’s an app for that Jan 23, 2020 11:00 am2064 views It’s National Grammar Day, so stop grammar shaming Mar 3, 2021 9:15 pm4264 views It's National Grammar Day, not National Pedant's Day Mar 3, 2019 10:00 pm2386 views It’s National Grammar Day. I can’t even, and you shouldn’t either. Mar 3, 2020 5:30 pm2449 views It's alive! New computer learns language like a human, almost Oct 8, 2010 3:15 pm3164 views It's 3 a.m. and someone is texting the White House . . . Aug 23, 2008 11:17 pm986 views Is there free Wi-Fi? The Web @25 Mar 11, 2014 12:30 pm827 views Is the mother of all bombs sexist? Apr 15, 2017 4:00 pm3021 views Is the internet killing literacy, or pumping new life into it? Jan 26, 2008 7:00 pm1608 views Is it "Miss" or "Ms"? A newly-discovered 1885 cite suggests it's Miss Jul 27, 2010 5:30 pm3826 views Is "gay apparel" gay? Nov 1, 2013 9:00 pm46728 views Is English endangered? Sep 17, 2006 5:51 pm1681 views Is Donald Trump smarter than a third grader? Aug 19, 2015 12:30 pm1553 views Is 2010 the new 1984? Amazon can cut off your access to books any time it wants Jan 30, 2010 5:30 pm2861 views Iowa, "the English-only State," suspends student for refusing English proficiency test Mar 6, 2009 10:59 pm1825 views In which Pooh tries a nonbinary pronoun Aug 11, 2018 5:30 pm3939 views In the war against English, we won't be undersold Feb 16, 2007 3:59 pm1187 views In the event of moon disaster, and other speeches our presidents never gave Jul 17, 2019 10:00 am3263 views Internet addiction: deadly pathology or just a nice substitute for TV? Aug 6, 2009 10:36 pm2779 views International Pronouns Day Oct 9, 2018 10:30 am977 views In Silicon Valley’s version of the nanny state, the nannies are all offline Oct 28, 2018 10:00 am1295 views In Pahrump, speak English or get out of town Nov 15, 2006 12:39 pm3542 views Illinois bans male pronoun Jan 2, 2007 8:16 pm2856 views I found it on Wikipedia, the eBay for facts Oct 26, 2006 10:00 am2785 views Humans hardwired to use the passive voice Apr 1, 2014 12:00 am3692 views How to save an endangered language Nov 17, 2011 12:01 am13492 views How a bill becomes a law 2.0: A high-tech president renews the Patriot Act by autopen Jun 3, 2011 4:15 pm10477 views House Passes H.R. 401, a Bill to Ban Texting in Spanish Mar 31, 2011 7:00 pm12488 views Hillary Clinton: Runs like a man, talks like a girl Apr 26, 2007 6:45 pm1851 views High Times: Grimm's Law turns cannabis into hemp in four easy steps Dec 9, 2013 2:00 pm1834 views High Court to decide whether F-bomb is ready for prime time Nov 13, 2008 11:06 pm871 views High cost of English got you down? Speak Esperanto and save Jul 23, 2007 3:41 pm1832 views Hey, you guys, you is already plural Aug 24, 2018 10:15 am16404 views Heer, hiser, himer: Pronouns in the news, 1912 edition Jul 25, 2020 1:30 pm1867 views Happy National Grammar Day, to those who celebrate* Mar 3, 2024 12:45 pm635 views Happy birthday OK: the world's most-popular word turns 172 Mar 22, 2011 6:30 pm7602 views Happy Birthday, Henry Fowler: inventor of that/which rule is 150 today Mar 8, 2008 12:11 am5635 views Guns and grammar: punctuation doesn't make meaning, people do Mar 13, 2007 11:26 pm1849 views Guilt by association: My Sarah Palin number is 2. Does that mean I palled around with terrorists? Oct 13, 2008 9:43 pm882 views