blog posts Farsi Farce: Iran to deport all foreign words Aug 17, 2006 10:30 pm4675 views English: The official national language of the United States Aug 18, 2006 3:15 pm3395 views Jose Can You See? National anthem in Spanish--but will the kids dance to it? Aug 18, 2006 3:30 pm1554 views English: the Official language of the Philly Cheese Steak Aug 23, 2006 9:03 am1808 views Official English in Bogota, New Jersey? Aug 24, 2006 11:41 pm1501 views Pluto re-enters underworld Aug 25, 2006 6:15 pm1449 views Google rules that google isn't a word Aug 29, 2006 5:18 pm3771 views Language politics in the news Sep 4, 2006 12:01 pm1341 views OMG, OMG, text messages actually improve spelling Sep 11, 2006 10:28 pm2182 views Is English endangered? Sep 17, 2006 5:51 pm1529 views National Punctuation Day Sep 24, 2006 9:30 pm2987 views U.S. government rewrites dictionary, or, twisting the definition of torture Oct 3, 2006 10:04 pm1847 views All bloggers are liars Oct 19, 2006 8:58 am1820 views Grammar: Good for your health? Oct 19, 2006 1:15 pm1455 views Grammar's back in school Oct 23, 2006 10:00 pm1215 views Stood the course, now what? Favorite Bush slogan is retired Oct 24, 2006 11:00 am1265 views I found it on Wikipedia, the eBay for facts Oct 26, 2006 10:00 am2756 views Size matters: Bilinguals have bigger brains Nov 6, 2006 10:45 pm2485 views Speak English in Arizona, or I'll see you in court Nov 8, 2006 6:00 pm1907 views What's wrong with English? Nov 12, 2006 8:45 pm1773 views The Laws of English usage Nov 12, 2006 9:25 pm1858 views In Pahrump, speak English or get out of town Nov 15, 2006 12:39 pm2941 views Guide to America's English-only towns and cities Nov 18, 2006 11:35 am1659 views A new pronoun. Again? Nov 28, 2006 11:15 am2727 views Defining civil war, or, the current unpleasantness in Iraq Nov 30, 2006 5:45 pm1208 views Commas gone wild, or, punctuation bares all Dec 6, 2006 11:45 pm6893 views Roadside bomb: Word of the Year for 2006 Dec 10, 2006 3:15 pm1672 views "War on Terror" ends in England. Will U.S. stay the course? Dec 13, 2006 1:45 pm1085 views Teaching grammar stops violence Dec 16, 2006 10:30 pm4771 views You are the person of the year. One of you? Two of you? All of you? Dec 24, 2006 12:15 am1383 views It's time to ban the banned words list Jan 1, 2007 7:30 pm2102 views Illinois bans male pronoun Jan 2, 2007 8:16 pm2817 views Urban legend: don't end sentence with preposition Jan 4, 2007 9:19 am4268 views Another benefit of bilingualism: it delays dementia Jan 16, 2007 5:30 pm1194 views State threatens to close schools violating official language law Jan 18, 2007 10:29 pm1453 views Esperanto, the language that promises hope but doesn't deliver, celebrates 120th birthday Jan 20, 2007 8:35 pm5226 views National Handwriting Day -- a web-only special Jan 23, 2007 8:39 pm1253 views Semantic State of the Union Jan 24, 2007 12:25 am1168 views English must be protected from cheap foreign imports Jan 28, 2007 11:14 pm1132 views Pentagon declares foreign language a weapon. O.K., maggots, drop and give me 50 conjugations Jan 30, 2007 12:21 pm1334 views Spanish Pledge of Allegiance? Oy vey, can you see it's deja vu all over again? Feb 3, 2007 11:45 pm3561 views Friendswood, Texas, may soon give residents the right to speak to town employees in English Feb 5, 2007 10:00 pm1232 views Joe Biden's Obama moment, or, I love it when you talk white to me Feb 6, 2007 11:00 pm3182 views French the most legal language, say the French Feb 9, 2007 11:45 am4634 views A panda walks into a bar, or, why language self-help books help nobody Feb 14, 2007 5:52 pm1707 views In the war against English, we won't be undersold Feb 16, 2007 3:59 pm1182 views The English Language Unity Act of 2007: It takes more than a language to unify a nation Feb 22, 2007 7:27 pm1271 views You can save this endangered language for only pennies a day; or you could let it die. Feb 25, 2007 2:45 pm1175 views A modest proposal: Don't make English official, ban it instead Mar 2, 2007 9:45 am2858 views The N-word: on its way out? Mar 7, 2007 1:15 pm1467 views
