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  • Researchers find swearing has health benefits. If you're in pain, curse twice and call me in the morning

    Jul 15, 2009 5:15 pm8990 views
  • Florida license plate with motto "The Banned Speech State"

    Welcome to the Banned Speech State

    Feb 17, 2026 10:45 am8830 views
  • Top ten language stories of 2010

    Dec 29, 2010 7:00 pm8802 views
  • La Marianne, symbol of the French Revolution

    The French Academy wants you to remember, this virus is feminine

    May 9, 2020 5:15 pm8720 views
  • Happy birthday OK: the world's most-popular word turns 172

    Mar 22, 2011 6:30 pm8453 views
  • A million English words, or only 600,000? Either way, it's a language packed with more words than you'll ever need

    Jul 8, 2008 9:30 pm8405 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 pm8227 views
  • Who cares about National Grammar Day? Or is it whom?

    Mar 3, 2010 6:00 pm8139 views
  • The government's definition of writing is seriously out of date

    Feb 3, 2011 4:00 pm8018 views
  • The politics of "he." Literally.

    Dec 25, 2015 1:15 pm8013 views
  • Whatever is, you know, the word that Americans hate most

    Oct 12, 2009 10:15 pm7896 views
  • Eliminating masculine pronouns, Congressional old boys network goes gender-neutral

    Jan 9, 2009 11:15 pm7713 views
  • Some notes on singular they

    Sep 14, 2015 6:00 pm7473 views
  • The English Language Unity Act: Big government that only a tea partier could love

    Sep 23, 2010 3:30 pm7454 views
  • Should everybody write? Or is there enough junk on the internet already?

    Mar 8, 2010 11:15 pm7402 views
  • The laws of English punctuation

    Oct 23, 2011 3:45 pm7400 views
  • Why we misread

    Jun 30, 2012 11:15 pm7124 views
  • Commas gone wild, or, punctuation bares all

    Dec 6, 2006 11:45 pm6971 views
  • The Babel Proclamation: celebrating a century of banning foreign languages in America

    May 23, 2018 7:00 am6938 views
  • Facebook and your health: A Dr. Grammar Special Report

    Aug 10, 2011 9:15 pm6927 views
  • " :) when you say that, pardner" -- the tweet police are watching

    Nov 13, 2010 10:30 pm6788 views
  • Cover of What's Your Pronoun? Beyond he and she.

    A grammar lesson for Justice Alito

    Jun 16, 2020 12:00 pm6776 views
  • The only linguistic impact of 9/11 is 9/11 itself

    Sep 8, 2011 10:15 pm6682 views
  • The Internet: It was 40 years ago today that the series of tubes went live

    Oct 29, 2009 7:45 pm6671 views
  • On National Grammar Day, stop acting like the earth is flat

    Mar 4, 2016 12:00 am6654 views
  • t-shirt with slogan "Everybody wants to be correct but nobody wants to be corrected."

    National Grammar Day 2026

    Mar 1, 2026 11:30 am6611 views
  • The First Amendment, from North Carolina's copy of the original Bill of Rights

    Will the Supreme Court soon be policing your speech?

    Nov 20, 2020 11:00 am6603 views
  • The Old Anarchist says, "I have a pencil and I know how to use it."

    National Handwriting Day 2026

    Jan 17, 2026 3:30 pm6562 views
  • WTF is the 2010 Word of the Year

    Dec 25, 2010 6:15 pm6541 views
  • ROBOT TEACHERS!!! -- Coming soon, to a classroom near you!!!

    Jul 11, 2010 4:45 pm6492 views
  • Will the Word Pedometer make babies smarter?

    Dec 22, 2019 1:15 pm6374 views
  • New Jersey High School bans foreign languages, then eats its words

    Feb 6, 2009 10:00 pm6358 views
  • Good handwriting still important . . . for that successful stick-up note

    Feb 2, 2008 12:45 am6337 views
  • Killer app: Seven dirty words you can't say on your iPhone

    Oct 14, 2010 7:45 pm6303 views
  • #twitterrevolution--reforming Egypt in 140 characters?

    Feb 16, 2011 1:00 am6245 views
  • Ana Suda and Martha Hernandez were detained in Havre, Montana, by a Customs and Border Patrol agent for speaking Spanish

    Shopping while Spanish in Montana

    Dec 3, 2020 10:30 am6101 views
  • The e-book dilemma: should you rent or own?

    Mar 10, 2011 11:45 am6074 views
  • Written Language Disorder: Medical researchers fear there's no cure for bad writing

    May 13, 2009 11:30 pm5997 views
  • Estonia contest will determine world's most beautiful language. Will it be Estonian?

    Jan 15, 2008 11:15 pm5980 views
  • Joe Biden's Obama moment, or, I love it when you talk white to me

    Feb 6, 2007 11:00 pm5932 views
  • Trump’s words on January 6 were a clear and present danger

    Feb 16, 2021 11:45 am5767 views
  • Sorry, Dr. House. Study correlates neat handwriting with academic success

    Nov 5, 2007 10:45 pm5757 views
  • Happy Birthday, Henry Fowler: inventor of that/which rule is 150 today

    Mar 8, 2008 12:11 am5742 views
  • Facebook says, "All your face are belong to us."

    Aug 27, 2010 10:15 pm5740 views
  • The Frozen Trucker v. The Bolognese Bloodletter: Why we read law sensibly, not literally

    Mar 23, 2017 9:00 pm5736 views
  • English spoken here: Arizona moves from English-only to stop-and-deport

    May 15, 2010 6:45 pm5697 views
  • A literal paradox: "literally" generally means 'figuratively'

    Oct 27, 2010 5:45 pm5686 views
  • TSA bans reading on international flights

    Dec 28, 2009 12:15 am5631 views
  • Esperanto, the language that promises hope but doesn't deliver, celebrates 120th birthday

    Jan 20, 2007 8:35 pm5616 views
  • Driving while Spanish nets trucker $500 fine

    Jul 19, 2008 1:00 am5588 views
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