blog posts Don’t Make English Official, Ban It Instead Mar 1, 2025 1:15 pm2126 views Policing protest speech, part 2: The government would like a word . . . Oct 19, 2024 1:45 pm233 views Happy National Grammar Day, to those who celebrate* Mar 3, 2024 12:45 pm1211 views The War on Pronouns Apr 4, 2023 10:45 am2758 views Does the First Amendment mean "You can't make me say your pronouns"? Jun 13, 2022 10:00 am11615 views Don’t blame the new French pronoun on Americans Dec 12, 2021 11:15 am4941 views It’s National Grammar Day, so stop grammar shaming Mar 3, 2021 9:15 pm4334 views Heer, hiser, himer: Pronouns in the news, 1912 edition Jul 25, 2020 1:30 pm2027 views The oldest genderless pronouns are lo and zo, for French, and e, es, em, for English Jul 16, 2020 1:00 pm3909 views Verbing pronouns Apr 20, 2020 10:00 am2266 views It’s National Grammar Day. I can’t even, and you shouldn’t either. Mar 3, 2020 5:30 pm2516 views The Song of Singular they Sep 14, 2019 1:15 pm1700 views It's National Grammar Day, not National Pedant's Day Mar 3, 2019 10:00 pm2506 views Countering the backlash against nonbinary pronouns Oct 16, 2018 11:15 pm15902 views Nonbinary pronouns are older than you think Oct 13, 2018 5:15 pm69125 views International Pronouns Day Oct 9, 2018 10:30 am1007 views Hey, you guys, you is already plural Aug 24, 2018 10:15 am17290 views In which Pooh tries a nonbinary pronoun Aug 11, 2018 5:30 pm4071 views A Brief History of Singular 'they' Jul 30, 2018 12:15 pm44306 views Politics and the English Language: 2016 Primary Edition Apr 1, 2016 12:15 am3689 views On National Grammar Day, stop acting like the earth is flat Mar 4, 2016 12:00 am6627 views The politics of "he." Literally. Dec 25, 2015 1:15 pm7907 views "She" -- Chelsea Manning and the first-ever court-ordered pronoun Mar 6, 2015 4:15 pm620 views Why is National Grammar Day different from all other days? Mar 3, 2015 5:45 pm1620 views Take the National Grammar Day Quiz Mar 3, 2014 2:30 pm3086 views On National Writing Day . . . . the NSA is tracking what you write Oct 20, 2013 4:00 pm886 views National Grammar Day in Wartime Mar 3, 2013 10:15 am3569 views Why we misread Jun 30, 2012 11:15 pm7090 views Take the National Grammar Day Quiz Mar 2, 2011 11:00 pm15764 views Cyber-laugh: everything old is new again, haha Feb 27, 2011 11:30 pm4071 views The government does not control your grammar Jan 19, 2011 6:45 pm27331 views Top ten language stories of 2010 Dec 29, 2010 7:00 pm8791 views " :) when you say that, pardner" -- the tweet police are watching Nov 13, 2010 10:30 pm6770 views Killer app: Seven dirty words you can't say on your iPhone Oct 14, 2010 7:45 pm6225 views Good grammar leads to violence at Starbucks? Aug 16, 2010 8:45 pm3871 views Who cares about National Grammar Day? Or is it whom? Mar 3, 2010 6:00 pm8117 views Language lessons: It's time for English teachers to stop teaching that the earth is flat Dec 1, 2009 10:15 pm27566 views Cell phones make kids faster, dumber Aug 12, 2009 2:08 am4963 views Eliminating masculine pronouns, Congressional old boys network goes gender-neutral Jan 9, 2009 11:15 pm7693 views Bees do it: bilingual bees teach humans a lesson Jun 8, 2008 12:45 am5277 views Speak English, get out of jail free Mar 27, 2008 9:00 pm16888 views Happy Birthday, Henry Fowler: inventor of that/which rule is 150 today Mar 8, 2008 12:11 am5692 views Guns and grammar: punctuation doesn't make meaning, people do Mar 13, 2007 11:26 pm1880 views Teaching grammar stops violence Dec 16, 2006 10:30 pm4813 views
