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  • Farsi Farce: Iran to deport all foreign words

    Aug 17, 2006 10:30 pm4930 views
  • English: The official national language of the United States

    Aug 18, 2006 3:15 pm9355 views
  • Jose Can You See? National anthem in Spanish--but will the kids dance to it?

    Aug 18, 2006 3:30 pm1656 views
  • English: the Official language of the Philly Cheese Steak

    Aug 23, 2006 9:03 am1875 views
  • Official English in Bogota, New Jersey?

    Aug 24, 2006 11:41 pm1562 views
  • Pluto re-enters underworld

    Aug 25, 2006 6:15 pm1552 views
  • Google rules that google isn't a word

    Aug 29, 2006 5:18 pm4726 views
  • Language politics in the news

    Sep 4, 2006 12:01 pm1365 views
  • OMG, OMG, text messages actually improve spelling

    Sep 11, 2006 10:28 pm2245 views
  • Is English endangered?

    Sep 17, 2006 5:51 pm1774 views
  • National Punctuation Day

    Sep 24, 2006 9:30 pm3027 views
  • U.S. government rewrites dictionary, or, twisting the definition of torture

    Oct 3, 2006 10:04 pm2086 views
  • All bloggers are liars

    Oct 19, 2006 8:58 am1869 views
  • Grammar: Good for your health?

    Oct 19, 2006 1:15 pm1497 views
  • Grammar's back in school

    Oct 23, 2006 10:00 pm1253 views
  • Stood the course, now what? Favorite Bush slogan is retired

    Oct 24, 2006 11:00 am1331 views
  • I found it on Wikipedia, the eBay for facts

    Oct 26, 2006 10:00 am2832 views
  • Size matters: Bilinguals have bigger brains

    Nov 6, 2006 10:45 pm3012 views
  • Speak English in Arizona, or I'll see you in court

    Nov 8, 2006 6:00 pm2145 views
  • What's wrong with English?

    Nov 12, 2006 8:45 pm1816 views
  • The Laws of English usage

    Nov 12, 2006 9:25 pm1924 views
  • In Pahrump, speak English or get out of town

    Nov 15, 2006 12:39 pm4447 views
  • Guide to America's English-only towns and cities

    Nov 18, 2006 11:35 am2440 views
  • A new pronoun. Again?

    Nov 28, 2006 11:15 am3145 views
  • Defining civil war, or, the current unpleasantness in Iraq

    Nov 30, 2006 5:45 pm1254 views
  • Commas gone wild, or, punctuation bares all

    Dec 6, 2006 11:45 pm6977 views
  • Roadside bomb: Word of the Year for 2006

    Dec 10, 2006 3:15 pm1797 views
  • "War on Terror" ends in England. Will U.S. stay the course?

    Dec 13, 2006 1:45 pm1110 views
  • Teaching grammar stops violence

    Dec 16, 2006 10:30 pm4829 views
  • You are the person of the year. One of you? Two of you? All of you?

    Dec 24, 2006 12:15 am1451 views
  • It's time to ban the banned words list

    Jan 1, 2007 7:30 pm2242 views
  • Illinois bans male pronoun

    Jan 2, 2007 8:16 pm2891 views
  • Urban legend: don't end sentence with preposition

    Jan 4, 2007 9:19 am5228 views
  • Another benefit of bilingualism: it delays dementia

    Jan 16, 2007 5:30 pm1241 views
  • State threatens to close schools violating official language law

    Jan 18, 2007 10:29 pm1503 views
  • Esperanto, the language that promises hope but doesn't deliver, celebrates 120th birthday

    Jan 20, 2007 8:35 pm5648 views
  • National Handwriting Day -- a web-only special

    Jan 23, 2007 8:39 pm1299 views
  • Semantic State of the Union

    Jan 24, 2007 12:25 am1197 views
  • English must be protected from cheap foreign imports

    Jan 28, 2007 11:14 pm1158 views
  • Pentagon declares foreign language a weapon. O.K., maggots, drop and give me 50 conjugations

    Jan 30, 2007 12:21 pm1408 views
  • Spanish Pledge of Allegiance? Oy vey, can you see it's deja vu all over again?

    Feb 3, 2007 11:45 pm3870 views
  • Friendswood, Texas, may soon give residents the right to speak to town employees in English

    Feb 5, 2007 10:00 pm1298 views
  • Joe Biden's Obama moment, or, I love it when you talk white to me

    Feb 6, 2007 11:00 pm6029 views
  • French the most legal language, say the French

    Feb 9, 2007 11:45 am5405 views
  • A panda walks into a bar, or, why language self-help books help nobody

    Feb 14, 2007 5:52 pm1983 views
  • In the war against English, we won't be undersold

    Feb 16, 2007 3:59 pm1220 views
  • The English Language Unity Act of 2007: It takes more than a language to unify a nation

    Feb 22, 2007 7:27 pm1303 views
  • You can save this endangered language for only pennies a day; or you could let it die.

    Feb 25, 2007 2:45 pm1233 views
  • A modest proposal: Don't make English official, ban it instead

    Mar 2, 2007 9:45 am3064 views
  • The N-word: on its way out?

    Mar 7, 2007 1:15 pm1723 views
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