blog posts The Babel Proclamation: celebrating a century of banning foreign languages in America May 23, 2018 7:00 am5748 views The American moment is waning. Will English pull us through? Jun 10, 2009 6:00 pm1200 views The all-natural guide to writing technology Feb 17, 2018 4:30 pm1226 views The 2017 Word of the Year has been banned Dec 17, 2017 10:15 am1131 views The 2012 Word of the Year is #hashtag Dec 17, 2012 12:30 am1404 views The 2009 word of the year is "teabag," but the word of the decade has to be "wingnut" Nov 18, 2009 6:30 pm4016 views That ugly Americanism? It may well be British. Jul 31, 2011 12:15 am11926 views Thats all Folks: The Apostrophe Protection Society Gone for Good Dec 2, 2019 7:00 pm1564 views Thanks to Facebook, “Like” just means, “Uh-huh” Aug 8, 2014 5:00 pm2406 views "Text 'M' for murder": The classics meet the digital age Apr 12, 2009 6:45 pm1323 views Tennessee’s new “plain meaning” law masks an anti-gay, anti-feminist agenda Apr 30, 2017 9:15 pm2812 views Technology Update: Flying books can be dangerous Aug 11, 2010 7:15 pm2824 views Teaching grammar stops violence Dec 16, 2006 10:30 pm4785 views Teaching commas won't help May 14, 2011 3:00 pm10895 views Teachers' pronouns Oct 22, 2019 12:15 pm18328 views 'Talking while Spanish' on trial in Wichita Aug 15, 2008 11:30 pm1387 views Take the National Grammar Day Quiz Mar 2, 2011 11:00 pm9891 views Take the National Grammar Day Quiz Mar 3, 2014 2:30 pm3025 views Supreme Court strikes a blow against minority language rights Jun 28, 2009 11:30 am1250 views Supreme Court rules that guns don't kill people; throwing out DC gun law, Scalia finds that linguists are mad hatters living on the other side of the looking glass Jun 28, 2008 12:37 am2026 views Supporters of official English in the United States can learn from Slovakia Jul 13, 2009 4:15 pm2701 views Stunning revelation: Secret dictionary panel controls English language Sep 28, 2012 4:30 pm3119 views Strict constructionist Chief Justice flubs oath, Obama presidency survives unscathed Jan 21, 2009 12:06 am1439 views Stood the course, now what? Favorite Bush slogan is retired Oct 24, 2006 11:00 am1279 views State threatens to close schools violating official language law Jan 18, 2007 10:29 pm1455 views Spell the American way on National Dictionary Day Oct 16, 2007 11:57 pm3447 views Spelling counts at the Spelling Bee, but in the age of the Internet, should it count anywhere else? May 31, 2007 11:30 pm1343 views Speak English in Arizona, or I'll see you in court Nov 8, 2006 6:00 pm2026 views Speak English, get out of jail free Mar 27, 2008 9:00 pm16710 views Spanish Pledge of Allegiance? Oy vey, can you see it's deja vu all over again? Feb 3, 2007 11:45 pm3750 views Sorry, Dr. House. Study correlates neat handwriting with academic success Nov 5, 2007 10:45 pm5672 views Some notes on singular they Sep 14, 2015 6:00 pm7278 views So long as we're banning devices from the classroom, let's ban clay tablets as well Nov 25, 2017 2:45 am1895 views So how do dictionaries define marriage, anyway? Apr 29, 2015 4:45 pm8321 views Small Latin and less Greek were good enough for Shakespeare, but some Brits want to rid English of its classical roots Nov 10, 2008 11:00 pm1647 views Sliced Bread 2.0: Is the internet all it's cracked up to be? Feb 22, 2010 12:30 am2893 views Size matters: Bilinguals have bigger brains Nov 6, 2006 10:45 pm2853 views Siri, take a sonnet . . . (or, what if Shakespeare had a speech-to-text app on his quill pen?) Jun 25, 2013 10:45 pm1452 views Singular they is word of the year Nov 19, 2015 1:30 pm16850 views Siberian town bans "I don't know." Violators will be sent to . . . Siberia Sep 7, 2007 12:06 am1150 views Should ze be in the dictionary? Oct 19, 2016 6:15 pm1389 views Should we fear a world without books? Jan 26, 2009 9:49 pm2750 views Should everybody write? Or is there enough junk on the internet already? Mar 8, 2010 11:15 pm7336 views Should Barack Obama, the first digital president, have to give up Twitter? Nov 16, 2008 7:35 pm770 views Shopping while Spanish in Montana Dec 3, 2020 10:30 am6007 views "She" -- Chelsea Manning and the first-ever court-ordered pronoun Mar 6, 2015 4:15 pm595 views Shakespeare's Birthday is 'Talk Like Shakespeare Day' in Chicago, methinks Apr 20, 2009 7:45 pm1782 views Semantic State of the Union Jan 24, 2007 12:25 am1168 views Second Amendment grammar -- the Framers parsed it one way, but will the Supreme Court agree with their analysis? Mar 16, 2008 8:30 pm17367 views Say goodbye to the decade with no name Dec 15, 2009 11:30 pm1642 views