blog posts Yellow Fever: Is it a racist slur or just a place to eat? Apr 28, 2018 11:15 pm7658 views The all-natural guide to writing technology Feb 17, 2018 4:30 pm1238 views Thon was Word of the Year in 1884 Jan 5, 2018 12:30 pm10809 views The 2017 Word of the Year has been banned Dec 17, 2017 10:15 am1137 views The new digital censorship: Writers blocking readers Dec 5, 2017 5:00 pm429 views So long as we're banning devices from the classroom, let's ban clay tablets as well Nov 25, 2017 2:45 am1921 views When Donald Trump blocks you on Twitter, does he violate the First Amendment? Nov 8, 2017 11:00 am874 views Miranda and the Louisiana Lawyer Dog: a case of talking while black Nov 4, 2017 10:00 am14357 views Language in the age of Fake News, Fox News, and Trump™ Nov 2, 2017 8:30 pm4106 views Court rules that gay bashing is not a crime in West Virginia May 13, 2017 10:15 am2411 views Tennessee’s new “plain meaning” law masks an anti-gay, anti-feminist agenda Apr 30, 2017 9:15 pm2818 views Dictionaries are trending Apr 22, 2017 3:30 pm585 views Is the mother of all bombs sexist? Apr 15, 2017 4:00 pm3041 views The Frozen Trucker v. The Bolognese Bloodletter: Why we read law sensibly, not literally Mar 23, 2017 9:00 pm5500 views Let's eat grandpa: Commas are not a matter of life and death, even in the law Mar 16, 2017 1:15 am10819 views You lie: Dictionaries find truth in a post-truth world Jan 25, 2017 1:45 am2033 views The oath of office in the post-truth presidency Jan 16, 2017 9:30 pm2180 views The word of the year for 2016 is too terrible to name Dec 2, 2016 5:30 pm1501 views Should ze be in the dictionary? Oct 19, 2016 6:15 pm1413 views “We come in peace,” or, how to talk to space aliens Sep 5, 2016 5:30 pm4198 views When you ask people for the words they hate, don’t complain when they tell you Aug 27, 2016 11:00 pm1753 views Going native: Brexit prompts linguistic cleansing Aug 17, 2016 6:30 pm3714 views Did Donald Trump just threaten the president? Aug 9, 2016 10:30 pm1460 views Emoji don't kill people . . . Aug 6, 2016 1:45 pm1230 views Trump University’s plagiarism policy Jul 19, 2016 7:45 pm674 views Politics and the English Language: 2016 Primary Edition Apr 1, 2016 12:15 am3658 views On National Grammar Day, stop acting like the earth is flat Mar 4, 2016 12:00 am6585 views On the birthday of the (legal) generic masculine, let's declare it legally dead Feb 24, 2016 1:00 pm4788 views It’s the birthday of a pronoun: heer, himer, hiser, born OTD in 1912 Jan 5, 2016 3:30 pm3554 views Banishing the words you hate won’t help Jan 3, 2016 12:45 pm1615 views The politics of "he." Literally. Dec 25, 2015 1:15 pm7670 views Singular they is word of the year Nov 19, 2015 1:30 pm16914 views Things are looking up :) -- It's Dictionary Day Oct 16, 2015 12:00 pm1401 views Some notes on singular they Sep 14, 2015 6:00 pm7303 views What's your pronoun? Sep 4, 2015 12:15 pm5348 views Is Donald Trump smarter than a third grader? Aug 19, 2015 12:30 pm1586 views With T-shirts at work, you can’t always say what you want Jul 11, 2015 11:15 pm1127 views To those who want more grammar in school: Get off my lawn! Jul 6, 2015 11:00 pm2976 views Who defines marriage? Jul 1, 2015 12:45 pm2779 views Marriage equality, guns, health care, and the myth of judicial objectivity Jun 29, 2015 1:15 am536 views Can a Facebook post land you in jail? Jun 12, 2015 11:30 pm2243 views So how do dictionaries define marriage, anyway? Apr 29, 2015 4:45 pm8580 views What if printed books went by ebook rules? Apr 20, 2015 11:00 pm700 views Charlie Hebdo shows there’s always some speech that isn’t free Apr 5, 2015 4:15 pm850 views Arabic Pledge of Allegiance brings protests Mar 24, 2015 9:30 pm1584 views The internet of things? More like the internet of snitches. Mar 15, 2015 10:00 pm585 views "She" -- Chelsea Manning and the first-ever court-ordered pronoun Mar 6, 2015 4:15 pm598 views Why is National Grammar Day different from all other days? Mar 3, 2015 5:45 pm1598 views Don't make English official, ban it instead Feb 21, 2015 2:15 pm29219 views 2015's word of the year is "autocorrect" Dec 31, 2014 1:00 am1039 views
