blog posts You lie: Dictionaries find truth in a post-truth world Jan 25, 2017 1:45 am2015 views The oath of office in the post-truth presidency Jan 16, 2017 9:30 pm2116 views The word of the year for 2016 is too terrible to name Dec 2, 2016 5:30 pm1499 views Should ze be in the dictionary? Oct 19, 2016 6:15 pm1386 views “We come in peace,” or, how to talk to space aliens Sep 5, 2016 5:30 pm4115 views When you ask people for the words they hate, don’t complain when they tell you Aug 27, 2016 11:00 pm1741 views Going native: Brexit prompts linguistic cleansing Aug 17, 2016 6:30 pm3693 views Did Donald Trump just threaten the president? Aug 9, 2016 10:30 pm1443 views Emoji don't kill people . . . Aug 6, 2016 1:45 pm1161 views Trump University’s plagiarism policy Jul 19, 2016 7:45 pm668 views Politics and the English Language: 2016 Primary Edition Apr 1, 2016 12:15 am3657 views On National Grammar Day, stop acting like the earth is flat Mar 4, 2016 12:00 am6573 views On the birthday of the (legal) generic masculine, let's declare it legally dead Feb 24, 2016 1:00 pm4694 views It’s the birthday of a pronoun: heer, himer, hiser, born OTD in 1912 Jan 5, 2016 3:30 pm3538 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 pm7579 views Singular they is word of the year Nov 19, 2015 1:30 pm16845 views Things are looking up :) -- It's Dictionary Day Oct 16, 2015 12:00 pm1390 views Some notes on singular they Sep 14, 2015 6:00 pm7273 views What's your pronoun? Sep 4, 2015 12:15 pm5337 views Is Donald Trump smarter than a third grader? Aug 19, 2015 12:30 pm1544 views With T-shirts at work, you can’t always say what you want Jul 11, 2015 11:15 pm1115 views To those who want more grammar in school: Get off my lawn! Jul 6, 2015 11:00 pm2967 views Who defines marriage? Jul 1, 2015 12:45 pm2616 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 pm2212 views So how do dictionaries define marriage, anyway? Apr 29, 2015 4:45 pm8297 views What if printed books went by ebook rules? Apr 20, 2015 11:00 pm695 views Charlie Hebdo shows there’s always some speech that isn’t free Apr 5, 2015 4:15 pm829 views Arabic Pledge of Allegiance brings protests Mar 24, 2015 9:30 pm1567 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 pm593 views Why is National Grammar Day different from all other days? Mar 3, 2015 5:45 pm1597 views Don't make English official, ban it instead Feb 21, 2015 2:15 pm28918 views 2015's word of the year is "autocorrect" Dec 31, 2014 1:00 am1039 views Noah Webster’s Word of the Year for 1828 was torture, too Dec 19, 2014 2:30 pm2250 views Post on Facebook, go directly to jail? Dec 3, 2014 4:00 pm1297 views Can you touch a fish? A fisherman says you can’t. Nov 5, 2014 12:00 am1564 views America’s War on Language Sep 3, 2014 6:30 pm44390 views The right to be forgotten Aug 24, 2014 10:30 pm1920 views Thanks to Facebook, “Like” just means, “Uh-huh” Aug 8, 2014 5:00 pm2405 views My birthday word is "gobbledygook," the perfect gift for a writer May 9, 2014 6:00 pm4762 views Humans hardwired to use the passive voice Apr 1, 2014 12:00 am3683 views Is there free Wi-Fi? The Web @25 Mar 11, 2014 12:30 pm827 views Take the National Grammar Day Quiz Mar 3, 2014 2:30 pm3025 views Facebook multiplies genders but offers users the same three tired pronouns Feb 28, 2014 4:15 pm28785 views Nobody likes a whistleblower, wrayer, snitch, narker, denunciator, quadruplator, or emphanist Feb 23, 2014 5:45 pm3920 views Plain English: It’s the Law Feb 1, 2014 10:45 am2644 views On National Handwriting Day we celebrate handwriting because it’s no longer important Jan 23, 2014 7:11 pm1208 views Banning words for the new year Jan 19, 2014 12:21 pm1354 views