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  • California must ban language discrimination

    Aug 26, 2009 11:53 pm3879 views
  • Canadian language police prepare for unrest as 200 attend Esperanto Congress in Montreal

    Jul 17, 2008 8:56 pm1923 views
  • Post on Facebook, go directly to jail

    Can a Facebook post land you in jail?

    Jun 12, 2015 11:30 pm2361 views
  • A mummy at a cocktail indicates their pronouns as two hieroglyphs

    Can a Swedish pronoun cure sexism?

    Aug 29, 2019 10:45 am2499 views
  • Candidate barred from 'Running while Spanish' in Arizona

    Jan 29, 2012 10:45 pm2056 views
  • The flag that flew over Fort McHenry

    Can you sing the Star Spangled Banner in Spanish?

    Apr 3, 2025 12:45 pm1791 views
  • Can you touch a fish? A fisherman says you can’t.

    Nov 5, 2014 12:00 am1626 views
  • Celebrate Banned Books Week: Read now, before it's too late

    Oct 1, 2009 12:00 pm4499 views
  • Cell phones make kids faster, dumber

    Aug 12, 2009 2:08 am5071 views
  • Charlie Hebdo shows there’s always some speech that isn’t free

    Apr 5, 2015 4:15 pm989 views
  • A hangman stands by his gallows, with a sign, "People hanged, pictures hung."

    Commas don't kill people

    Jul 23, 2019 3:45 pm18581 views
  • Commas gone wild, or, punctuation bares all

    Dec 6, 2006 11:45 pm6983 views
  • Computers read so you don't have to

    Jun 10, 2012 1:15 pm2095 views
  • Computers remember so you don't have to

    Jul 15, 2011 9:15 pm2594 views
  • Content-free prose: The latest threat to writing or the next big thing?

    Jun 25, 2011 10:15 pm3011 views
  • Corpus linguistics, public meaning, and the Second Amendment

    Jul 20, 2021 1:45 pm4704 views
  • Correcting other people's English leads to conviction on federal conspiracy charges

    Sep 21, 2008 10:30 pm2215 views
  • Countering the backlash against nonbinary pronouns

    Oct 16, 2018 11:15 pm16096 views
  • Court rules 'Talking while Spanish' grounds for expulsion at Kansas school

    Aug 16, 2008 8:30 pm2685 views
  • Court rules that gay bashing is not a crime in West Virginia

    May 13, 2017 10:15 am2475 views
  • Court rules you can't swear like a trucker in trucking office

    May 7, 2008 3:45 pm1253 views
  • Criminalizing cyberspace: from Myanmar to California, going digital can mean going to jail

    Nov 24, 2008 11:15 pm857 views
  • CSI: Quebec -- Provincial tongue troopers on the trail of illegal English

    May 24, 2007 3:15 pm1490 views
  • <CTRL>, <ALT>, and especially <DELETE>: Proposed Cybersecurity Act gives president power to unplug the internet

    Apr 17, 2009 11:45 am641 views
  • Cyber-laugh: everything old is new again, haha

    Feb 27, 2011 11:30 pm4172 views
  • Defending the language with bullets: If you can read this in English, thank a soldier

    Jul 31, 2008 11:00 pm31545 views
  • Defining "anchor baby"

    Dec 9, 2011 6:15 pm2393 views
  • Defining civil war, or, the current unpleasantness in Iraq

    Nov 30, 2006 5:45 pm1255 views
  • Defining marriage: a huge win for human rights and good news for lexicographers

    Jun 29, 2013 11:00 pm1644 views
  • Department of Sanitation Certificate, dated 1956, awarded to the author for services to the "Clean City League" of New York.

    Defining "sanitation" to quash the mask mandate

    Apr 20, 2022 11:30 am892 views
  • Merriam-Webster logo with "As Seen on TV" superimposed on it.

    Dictionaries are trending

    Apr 22, 2017 3:30 pm651 views
  • Dictionaries recognize same-sex marriage; opponents allege plot

    Mar 18, 2009 10:30 pm2049 views
  • Dictionary droids write definitions untouched by human hands

    Jan 1, 2012 12:45 am2963 views
  • Did Donald Trump just threaten the president?

    Aug 9, 2016 10:30 pm1743 views
  • Did indicted Illinois ex-governor skip the online ethics training that he mandated for all state employees?

    Dec 10, 2008 1:30 am3807 views
  • Dirty words you can say on television: WTF as the newest cable channel?

    Nov 14, 2009 7:00 pm15034 views
  • Does the First Amendment mean "You can't make me say your pronouns"?

    Jun 13, 2022 10:00 am11895 views
  • Domo arigato, Dr. Roboto: Researchers prove rats can't understand Japanese backwards. Can you?

    Oct 6, 2007 1:43 pm2155 views
  • Definition of iel in Le Petit Robert online

    Don’t blame the new French pronoun on Americans

    Dec 12, 2021 11:15 am5048 views
  • Don't make English official, ban it instead

    Feb 21, 2015 2:15 pm30824 views
  • Ban English

    Don’t Make English Official, Ban It Instead

    Mar 1, 2025 1:15 pm3282 views
  • Don't read this: What Kindle's most-highlighted passages tell us about popular taste

    Jun 23, 2010 6:00 pm3463 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 pm1138 views
  • Doomsday machine? Engineers devise model to predict when your language is going to die . . .

    Feb 15, 2008 5:00 pm1263 views
  • Driving while Spanish nets trucker $500 fine

    Jul 19, 2008 1:00 am5601 views
  • Dr. Laura's n-word and the First Amendment

    Aug 22, 2010 2:15 pm3311 views
  • Eliminating masculine pronouns, Congressional old boys network goes gender-neutral

    Jan 9, 2009 11:15 pm7730 views
  • iPhone with the message, Emojis don't kill people . . .

    Emoji don't kill people . . .

    Aug 6, 2016 1:45 pm1347 views
  • English, brought to you tonight by the Republican Party

    Sep 6, 2008 1:30 pm1208 views
  • English makes you fat

    Apr 23, 2007 1:30 pm3566 views
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