blog posts Good handwriting still important . . . for that successful stick-up note Feb 2, 2008 12:45 am6301 views No more Autobus Magico, as Nevada school district bans Spanish on the bus Feb 4, 2008 12:09 am2148 views Doomsday machine? Engineers devise model to predict when your language is going to die . . . Feb 15, 2008 5:00 pm1214 views Quebec language police order Irish pub to get rid of English Feb 19, 2008 11:15 pm1647 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 Happy Birthday, Henry Fowler: inventor of that/which rule is 150 today Mar 8, 2008 12:11 am5627 views Second Amendment grammar -- the Framers parsed it one way, but will the Supreme Court agree with their analysis? Mar 16, 2008 8:30 pm17357 views Speak English, get out of jail free Mar 27, 2008 9:00 pm16702 views Owner of veggie fast food stand bans English Mar 31, 2008 10:44 pm965 views English rocks France Apr 18, 2008 4:58 pm1203 views Researchers: IM definitely infectious, but associated linguistic damage short-lived, haha Apr 25, 2008 7:15 pm2657 views 'Formulaic' is a 9-letter word for avoiding what writers need to learn Apr 29, 2008 1:00 pm2007 views Court rules you can't swear like a trucker in trucking office May 7, 2008 3:45 pm1198 views Read my lips: It's easier to understand someone after you've seen them speak May 22, 2008 11:30 am2159 views Wichita's English-only school sued for discrimination May 23, 2008 10:15 pm2463 views Txtng blamed for decline of French May 30, 2008 12:17 am3683 views Bees do it: bilingual bees teach humans a lesson Jun 8, 2008 12:45 am5193 views Another of Maryland's English-speaking towns poised (from the French) to go English-only Jun 19, 2008 4:15 pm946 views French Academy sees linguistic diversity endangering national identity Jun 20, 2008 10:45 pm2673 views Supreme Court rules that guns don't kill people; throwing out DC gun law, Scalia finds that linguists are mad hatters living on the other side of the looking glass Jun 28, 2008 12:37 am2025 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 pm2256 views A million English words, or only 600,000? Either way, it's a language packed with more words than you'll ever need Jul 8, 2008 9:30 pm8056 views English no longer the official language of New York's gas stations Jul 11, 2008 11:33 pm1091 views Canadian language police prepare for unrest as 200 attend Esperanto Congress in Montreal Jul 17, 2008 8:56 pm1872 views Driving while Spanish nets trucker $500 fine Jul 19, 2008 1:00 am5217 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 am1975 views Protecting English one beer at a time, or, how do you say 'Bud Light' in Flemish? Jul 28, 2008 12:10 am3177 views Defending the language with bullets: If you can read this in English, thank a soldier Jul 31, 2008 11:00 pm31320 views British academic acts to decriminalize bad spelling Aug 8, 2008 1:15 am1217 views Afghan government reaches impasse: can't decide whether to use the Pashtu or the Dari word for 'university' Aug 12, 2008 11:15 pm2220 views 'Talking while Spanish' on trial in Wichita Aug 15, 2008 11:30 pm1385 views Court rules 'Talking while Spanish' grounds for expulsion at Kansas school Aug 16, 2008 8:30 pm2454 views It's 3 a.m. and someone is texting the White House . . . Aug 23, 2008 11:17 pm986 views LPGA to golfers: speak English or get off the tour Aug 28, 2008 11:45 pm1203 views English, brought to you tonight by the Republican Party Sep 6, 2008 1:30 pm1159 views Pig-gate: any way you spin it, lipstick on a pig is politics as usual Sep 10, 2008 10:45 pm1427 views Correcting other people's English leads to conviction on federal conspiracy charges Sep 21, 2008 10:30 pm2180 views Words don't lie: semantic mapping of presidential debate shows what's really on candidates' minds Sep 28, 2008 12:51 am1259 views Words don't lie, part II: Perception Analyzer reveals no Jack Kennedys at vice presidential debate Oct 2, 2008 11:15 pm1029 views Words don't lie, part III: Campaign rhetoric gives way to campaign linguistics Oct 8, 2008 10:27 pm891 views Guilt by association: My Sarah Palin number is 2. Does that mean I palled around with terrorists? Oct 13, 2008 9:43 pm881 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 am4075 views Words don't lie, part IV: Candidates debate role of plumbers in the White House Oct 16, 2008 1:00 pm3213 views The semantics of politics: defining the real "real" America Oct 22, 2008 11:30 pm847 views Noah the Lexicographer finds Republican candidates' words lack . . . definition Oct 29, 2008 11:15 pm860 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 pm1647 views High Court to decide whether F-bomb is ready for prime time Nov 13, 2008 11:06 pm871 views Should Barack Obama, the first digital president, have to give up Twitter? Nov 16, 2008 7:35 pm770 views Criminalizing cyberspace: from Myanmar to California, going digital can mean going to jail Nov 24, 2008 11:15 pm814 views Beyond the Pale: White House Hanukkah invite is actually Christmas card Nov 26, 2008 9:30 pm882 views