blog posts U.N. proclaims 2008 the International Year of Languages Dec 30, 2007 1:15 am1818 views English: the Official language of the Philly Cheese Steak Aug 23, 2006 9:03 am1813 views Two thumbs up? Researchers predict by 2013 we'll all be tweeting Oct 25, 2009 3:30 pm1788 views Shakespeare's Birthday is 'Talk Like Shakespeare Day' in Chicago, methinks Apr 20, 2009 7:45 pm1783 views What's wrong with English? Nov 12, 2006 8:45 pm1780 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 When you ask people for the words they hate, don’t complain when they tell you Aug 27, 2016 11:00 pm1747 views Pens and pencils down: NYC bans tests about dinosaurs, birthdays, and rock-n-roll Mar 30, 2012 6:45 pm1743 views A Better Pencil, available now from Oxford University Press Aug 12, 2009 12:00 am1742 views Bee Season: The annual spelling bee brings out protesters as well as nerds May 30, 2007 10:30 pm1710 views Roadside bomb: Word of the Year for 2006 Dec 10, 2006 3:15 pm1700 views Is English endangered? Sep 17, 2006 5:51 pm1681 views The Song of Singular they Sep 14, 2019 1:15 pm1657 views Quebec language police order Irish pub to get rid of English Feb 19, 2008 11:15 pm1653 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 Say goodbye to the decade with no name Dec 15, 2009 11:30 pm1643 views Banishing the words you hate won’t help Jan 3, 2016 12:45 pm1615 views Is the internet killing literacy, or pumping new life into it? Jan 26, 2008 7:00 pm1608 views McDonald's tells Webster, "Take this McJob and shove it" Jun 7, 2007 2:05 pm1598 views Why is National Grammar Day different from all other days? Mar 3, 2015 5:45 pm1597 views Army tells gay translators, don't tell, or don't translate May 25, 2007 1:15 pm1593 views Jose Can You See? National anthem in Spanish--but will the kids dance to it? Aug 18, 2006 3:30 pm1588 views Arabic Pledge of Allegiance brings protests Mar 24, 2015 9:30 pm1574 views Thats all Folks: The Apostrophe Protection Society Gone for Good Dec 2, 2019 7:00 pm1572 views Can you touch a fish? A fisherman says you can’t. Nov 5, 2014 12:00 am1567 views Defining marriage: a huge win for human rights and good news for lexicographers Jun 29, 2013 11:00 pm1557 views Is Donald Trump smarter than a third grader? Aug 19, 2015 12:30 pm1553 views Official English in Bogota, New Jersey? Aug 24, 2006 11:41 pm1525 views The N-word: on its way out? Mar 7, 2007 1:15 pm1514 views The word of the year for 2016 is too terrible to name Dec 2, 2016 5:30 pm1501 views Pluto re-enters underworld Aug 25, 2006 6:15 pm1490 views The Word of the Year for 2013 is "marriage" Dec 20, 2013 11:00 am1473 views English may run out of words Feb 26, 2009 7:45 pm1467 views Grammar: Good for your health? Oct 19, 2006 1:15 pm1462 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 State threatens to close schools violating official language law Jan 18, 2007 10:29 pm1455 views The Word of the Year for 2011 is "volatility" Nov 28, 2011 10:15 pm1454 views CSI: Quebec -- Provincial tongue troopers on the trail of illegal English May 24, 2007 3:15 pm1449 views Did Donald Trump just threaten the president? Aug 9, 2016 10:30 pm1444 views Strict constructionist Chief Justice flubs oath, Obama presidency survives unscathed Jan 21, 2009 12:06 am1440 views Pig-gate: any way you spin it, lipstick on a pig is politics as usual Sep 10, 2008 10:45 pm1430 views For Gingrich, English is global, Spanish is ghetto. Apr 6, 2007 2:00 pm1429 views Reinventing English: Why plain language isn't so simple Mar 9, 2007 12:12 am1426 views You are the person of the year. One of you? Two of you? All of you? Dec 24, 2006 12:15 am1416 views The 2012 Word of the Year is #hashtag Dec 17, 2012 12:30 am1404 views Should ze be in the dictionary? Oct 19, 2016 6:15 pm1403 views Things are looking up :) -- It's Dictionary Day Oct 16, 2015 12:00 pm1397 views The Elements of Style turns 50. If you're celebrating, make sure to use the active voice Apr 2, 2009 12:00 am1391 views 'Talking while Spanish' on trial in Wichita Aug 15, 2008 11:30 pm1389 views Pentagon declares foreign language a weapon. O.K., maggots, drop and give me 50 conjugations Jan 30, 2007 12:21 pm1359 views