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  • Pronouns and the law

    Oct 10, 2019 1:45 pm13227 views
  • The Song of Singular they

    Sep 14, 2019 1:15 pm1750 views
  • A mummy at a cocktail indicates their pronouns as two hieroglyphs

    Can a Swedish pronoun cure sexism?

    Aug 29, 2019 10:45 am2495 views
  • Jacob Rees-Mogg and his style guide

    Forget Rees-Mogg, Fowler, and Strunk & White, the arbiter of English today is Autocorrect

    Jul 31, 2019 11:45 am1404 views
  • A hangman stands by his gallows, with a sign, "People hanged, pictures hung."

    Commas don't kill people

    Jul 23, 2019 3:45 pm18515 views
  • Screen shot of TV image of the Apollo XI moonwalk

    In the event of moon disaster, and other speeches our presidents never gave

    Jul 17, 2019 10:00 am4146 views
  • Jeremy Bentham’s design for a Panopticon, or Inspection House

    Google's Panopticon will make you a better person--just click to agree

    Jul 13, 2019 12:15 am2604 views
  • T-shit with the slogan, It's National Grammar Day, not National Pedants Day

    It's National Grammar Day, not National Pedant's Day

    Mar 3, 2019 10:00 pm2592 views
  • What do you call a retired professor?

    Feb 26, 2019 6:00 pm5408 views
  • NPR tote bag with polling results: Politically correct, 36%. Not politically correct, 52%. Don't care, 12%

    NPR Poll: Americans don’t want to be politically correct. Tote bag, anyone?

    Dec 23, 2018 12:30 pm3194 views
  • Mary Poppins with an iPhone

    In Silicon Valley’s version of the nanny state, the nannies are all offline

    Oct 28, 2018 10:00 am1370 views
  • Countering the backlash against nonbinary pronouns

    Oct 16, 2018 11:15 pm16085 views
  • Nametag reads "Hello, my pronouns are . . ."

    Nonbinary pronouns are older than you think

    Oct 13, 2018 5:15 pm71605 views
  • What's your pronoun? button

    International Pronouns Day

    Oct 9, 2018 10:30 am1038 views
  • Hey, you guys, you is already plural

    Aug 24, 2018 10:15 am17913 views
  • In which Pooh tries a nonbinary pronoun

    Aug 11, 2018 5:30 pm4191 views
  • A Brief History of Singular 'they'

    Jul 30, 2018 12:15 pm47747 views
  • The right to read

    Jul 30, 2018 11:30 am300 views
  • The Babel Proclamation: celebrating a century of banning foreign languages in America

    May 23, 2018 7:00 am7222 views
  • Ghostwriters . . . who ya gonna call?

    May 12, 2018 2:00 pm309 views
  • Yellow Fever pan-Asian restaurant at a California Whole Foods

    Yellow Fever: Is it a racist slur or just a place to eat?

    Apr 28, 2018 11:15 pm8316 views
  • Bundle of pencils from John Thoreau Pencil Co.

    The all-natural guide to writing technology

    Feb 17, 2018 4:30 pm1347 views
  • Definition of "thon" from Merriam-Webster's Second New International Dictionary, 1934.

    Thon was Word of the Year in 1884

    Jan 5, 2018 12:30 pm11665 views
  • Samuel Johnson's definition of 'dotard': A man whose age has impaired his intellectd

    The 2017 Word of the Year has been banned

    Dec 17, 2017 10:15 am1312 views
  • No Reading: Barred Circle with an open book inside

    The new digital censorship: Writers blocking readers

    Dec 5, 2017 5:00 pm479 views
  • No. 2 pencil with eraser

    So long as we're banning devices from the classroom, let's ban clay tablets as well

    Nov 25, 2017 2:45 am2055 views
  • Message that users get when Trump blocks them

    When Donald Trump blocks you on Twitter, does he violate the First Amendment?

    Nov 8, 2017 11:00 am962 views
  • photo of Warren N. Demesme

    Miranda and the Louisiana Lawyer Dog: a case of talking while black

    Nov 4, 2017 10:00 am20539 views
  • Post Chomskies, the transformational whole-grain cereal, with a picture of the linguist Noam Chomsky on a cereal box

    Language in the age of Fake News, Fox News, and Trump™

    Nov 2, 2017 8:30 pm4245 views
  • Court rules that gay bashing is not a crime in West Virginia

    May 13, 2017 10:15 am2471 views
  • Tennessee’s new “plain meaning” law masks an anti-gay, anti-feminist agenda

    Apr 30, 2017 9:15 pm2883 views
  • Merriam-Webster logo with "As Seen on TV" superimposed on it.

    Dictionaries are trending

    Apr 22, 2017 3:30 pm648 views
  • Picture of the MOAB weapon

    Is the mother of all bombs sexist?

    Apr 15, 2017 4:00 pm3229 views
  • The Frozen Trucker v. The Bolognese Bloodletter: Why we read law sensibly, not literally

    Mar 23, 2017 9:00 pm5875 views
  • Let's eat grandpa: Commas are not a matter of life and death, even in the law

    Mar 16, 2017 1:15 am11267 views
  • You lie: Dictionaries find truth in a post-truth world

    Jan 25, 2017 1:45 am2146 views
  • The oath of office in the post-truth presidency

    Jan 16, 2017 9:30 pm2853 views
  • The word of the year for 2016 is too terrible to name

    Dec 2, 2016 5:30 pm1538 views
  • Button reading, "Ask me about my pronouns"

    Should ze be in the dictionary?

    Oct 19, 2016 6:15 pm1473 views
  • The NASA Plaque on Pioneer 10, 1972

    “We come in peace,” or, how to talk to space aliens

    Sep 5, 2016 5:30 pm4415 views
  • When you ask people for the words they hate, don’t complain when they tell you

    Aug 27, 2016 11:00 pm1811 views
  • 1945 British Passport, with royal seal

    Going native: Brexit prompts linguistic cleansing

    Aug 17, 2016 6:30 pm3831 views
  • Did Donald Trump just threaten the president?

    Aug 9, 2016 10:30 pm1740 views
  • iPhone with the message, Emojis don't kill people . . .

    Emoji don't kill people . . .

    Aug 6, 2016 1:45 pm1345 views
  • Trump University’s plagiarism policy

    Jul 19, 2016 7:45 pm755 views
  • On National Grammar Day, stop acting like the earth is flat

    Mar 4, 2016 12:00 am6675 views
  • On the birthday of the (legal) generic masculine, let's declare it legally dead

    Feb 24, 2016 1:00 pm5298 views
  • It’s the birthday of a pronoun: heer, himer, hiser, born OTD in 1912

    Jan 5, 2016 3:30 pm3642 views
  • Banishing the words you hate won’t help

    Jan 3, 2016 12:45 pm1648 views
  • The politics of "he." Literally.

    Dec 25, 2015 1:15 pm8133 views
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