blog posts Stood the course, now what? Favorite Bush slogan is retired Oct 24, 2006 11:00 am1310 views I found it on Wikipedia, the eBay for facts Oct 26, 2006 10:00 am2816 views Size matters: Bilinguals have bigger brains Nov 6, 2006 10:45 pm2968 views Speak English in Arizona, or I'll see you in court Nov 8, 2006 6:00 pm2096 views What's wrong with English? Nov 12, 2006 8:45 pm1799 views The Laws of English usage Nov 12, 2006 9:25 pm1912 views In Pahrump, speak English or get out of town Nov 15, 2006 12:39 pm4013 views Guide to America's English-only towns and cities Nov 18, 2006 11:35 am2247 views A new pronoun. Again? Nov 28, 2006 11:15 am3076 views Defining civil war, or, the current unpleasantness in Iraq Nov 30, 2006 5:45 pm1244 views Commas gone wild, or, punctuation bares all Dec 6, 2006 11:45 pm6960 views Roadside bomb: Word of the Year for 2006 Dec 10, 2006 3:15 pm1732 views "War on Terror" ends in England. Will U.S. stay the course? Dec 13, 2006 1:45 pm1099 views Teaching grammar stops violence Dec 16, 2006 10:30 pm4813 views You are the person of the year. One of you? Two of you? All of you? Dec 24, 2006 12:15 am1442 views It's time to ban the banned words list Jan 1, 2007 7:30 pm2201 views Illinois bans male pronoun Jan 2, 2007 8:16 pm2880 views Urban legend: don't end sentence with preposition Jan 4, 2007 9:19 am4802 views Another benefit of bilingualism: it delays dementia Jan 16, 2007 5:30 pm1230 views State threatens to close schools violating official language law Jan 18, 2007 10:29 pm1495 views Esperanto, the language that promises hope but doesn't deliver, celebrates 120th birthday Jan 20, 2007 8:35 pm5573 views National Handwriting Day -- a web-only special Jan 23, 2007 8:39 pm1284 views Semantic State of the Union Jan 24, 2007 12:25 am1185 views English must be protected from cheap foreign imports Jan 28, 2007 11:14 pm1151 views Pentagon declares foreign language a weapon. O.K., maggots, drop and give me 50 conjugations Jan 30, 2007 12:21 pm1390 views Spanish Pledge of Allegiance? Oy vey, can you see it's deja vu all over again? Feb 3, 2007 11:45 pm3840 views Friendswood, Texas, may soon give residents the right to speak to town employees in English Feb 5, 2007 10:00 pm1285 views Joe Biden's Obama moment, or, I love it when you talk white to me Feb 6, 2007 11:00 pm5473 views French the most legal language, say the French Feb 9, 2007 11:45 am5300 views A panda walks into a bar, or, why language self-help books help nobody Feb 14, 2007 5:52 pm1958 views In the war against English, we won't be undersold Feb 16, 2007 3:59 pm1207 views The English Language Unity Act of 2007: It takes more than a language to unify a nation Feb 22, 2007 7:27 pm1295 views You can save this endangered language for only pennies a day; or you could let it die. Feb 25, 2007 2:45 pm1214 views A modest proposal: Don't make English official, ban it instead Mar 2, 2007 9:45 am3044 views The N-word: on its way out? Mar 7, 2007 1:15 pm1641 views Reinventing English: Why plain language isn't so simple Mar 9, 2007 12:12 am1458 views Guns and grammar: punctuation doesn't make meaning, people do Mar 13, 2007 11:26 pm1880 views Google translates text untouched by human hands Mar 31, 2007 7:40 pm1116 views For Gingrich, English is global, Spanish is ghetto. Apr 6, 2007 2:00 pm1516 views "Young chicken without sex": China bans Chinglish for Olympics Apr 12, 2007 6:45 pm5382 views English makes you fat Apr 23, 2007 1:30 pm3458 views Hillary Clinton: Runs like a man, talks like a girl Apr 26, 2007 6:45 pm1874 views From pencils to pixels, technologies won't fix our schools May 8, 2007 3:45 pm1111 views Language goes to war: Pentagon launches Language Corps May 13, 2007 10:15 pm1215 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 pm1124 views CSI: Quebec -- Provincial tongue troopers on the trail of illegal English May 24, 2007 3:15 pm1465 views Army tells gay translators, don't tell, or don't translate May 25, 2007 1:15 pm1645 views Bee Season: The annual spelling bee brings out protesters as well as nerds May 30, 2007 10:30 pm1755 views Spelling counts at the Spelling Bee, but in the age of the Internet, should it count anywhere else? May 31, 2007 11:30 pm1386 views McDonald's tells Webster, "Take this McJob and shove it" Jun 7, 2007 2:05 pm1650 views