blog posts Banning words for the new year Jan 19, 2014 12:21 pm1354 views To Whom It May Concern: Today is National Letter Writing Day Dec 7, 2013 11:30 am1353 views What's black and white and read all over: the internet Nov 16, 2012 2:00 pm1349 views Spelling counts at the Spelling Bee, but in the age of the Internet, should it count anywhere else? May 31, 2007 11:30 pm1347 views Finding Eve's Rib? Oldest "Ms." might not have feminist origins after all Jun 23, 2009 10:00 pm1345 views Language politics in the news Sep 4, 2006 12:01 pm1342 views "Text 'M' for murder": The classics meet the digital age Apr 12, 2009 6:45 pm1323 views Post on Facebook, go directly to jail? Dec 3, 2014 4:00 pm1307 views Forget Rees-Mogg, Fowler, and Strunk & White, the arbiter of English today is Autocorrect Jul 31, 2019 11:45 am1304 views [Your Name Here] University: Naming Rights for Sale Apr 29, 2013 11:15 pm1301 views An M.A. in Facebook: now you can earn academic credit and avoid schoolwork at the same time Apr 1, 2009 10:45 pm1297 views In Silicon Valley’s version of the nanny state, the nannies are all offline Oct 28, 2018 10:00 am1295 views Stood the course, now what? Favorite Bush slogan is retired Oct 24, 2006 11:00 am1280 views The English Language Unity Act of 2007: It takes more than a language to unify a nation Feb 22, 2007 7:27 pm1277 views National Handwriting Day -- a web-only special Jan 23, 2007 8:39 pm1266 views Friendswood, Texas, may soon give residents the right to speak to town employees in English Feb 5, 2007 10:00 pm1262 views Words don't lie: semantic mapping of presidential debate shows what's really on candidates' minds Sep 28, 2008 12:51 am1259 views Supreme Court strikes a blow against minority language rights Jun 28, 2009 11:30 am1250 views The all-natural guide to writing technology Feb 17, 2018 4:30 pm1230 views Defining civil war, or, the current unpleasantness in Iraq Nov 30, 2006 5:45 pm1227 views British academic acts to decriminalize bad spelling Aug 8, 2008 1:15 am1219 views Grammar's back in school Oct 23, 2006 10:00 pm1216 views Doomsday machine? Engineers devise model to predict when your language is going to die . . . Feb 15, 2008 5:00 pm1214 views On Dictionary Day, take a banned word to lunch Oct 16, 2013 1:30 pm1210 views Emoji don't kill people . . . Aug 6, 2016 1:45 pm1209 views On National Handwriting Day we celebrate handwriting because it’s no longer important Jan 23, 2014 7:11 pm1208 views Another benefit of bilingualism: it delays dementia Jan 16, 2007 5:30 pm1204 views LPGA to golfers: speak English or get off the tour Aug 28, 2008 11:45 pm1204 views English rocks France Apr 18, 2008 4:58 pm1203 views Court rules you can't swear like a trucker in trucking office May 7, 2008 3:45 pm1203 views The American moment is waning. Will English pull us through? Jun 10, 2009 6:00 pm1200 views Language goes to war: Pentagon launches Language Corps May 13, 2007 10:15 pm1194 views You can save this endangered language for only pennies a day; or you could let it die. Feb 25, 2007 2:45 pm1189 views In the war against English, we won't be undersold Feb 16, 2007 3:59 pm1187 views Language is a facade. So is an official language. Oct 18, 2007 9:02 pm1181 views Republicans want EEOC to speak only English Dec 13, 2007 1:30 am1177 views Semantic State of the Union Jan 24, 2007 12:25 am1168 views English, brought to you tonight by the Republican Party Sep 6, 2008 1:30 pm1159 views Siberian town bans "I don't know." Violators will be sent to . . . Siberia Sep 7, 2007 12:06 am1151 views The 2017 Word of the Year has been banned Dec 17, 2017 10:15 am1135 views English must be protected from cheap foreign imports Jan 28, 2007 11:14 pm1133 views New military strategy: if GI's won't learn their verbs, try teaching linguists to shoot Dec 25, 2008 7:45 pm1126 views With T-shirts at work, you can’t always say what you want Jul 11, 2015 11:15 pm1123 views Lincoln the writer at 200: the statesman and orator constantly revised his prose Feb 12, 2009 2:46 pm1113 views English no longer the official language of New York's gas stations Jul 11, 2008 11:33 pm1094 views Google translates text untouched by human hands Mar 31, 2007 7:40 pm1092 views Don't show and tell: Army puts PR videos on YouTube while blocking the site on its own computers May 14, 2007 5:00 pm1089 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 An inconvenient tweet: it's against the law in England Jun 5, 2013 10:15 pm1087 views From pencils to pixels, technologies won't fix our schools May 8, 2007 3:45 pm1086 views