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  • [Your Name Here] University: Naming Rights for Sale

    Apr 29, 2013 11:15 pm1352 views
  • "Young chicken without sex": China bans Chinglish for Olympics

    Apr 12, 2007 6:45 pm5403 views
  • You lie: Dictionaries find truth in a post-truth world

    Jan 25, 2017 1:45 am2149 views
  • You can save this endangered language for only pennies a day; or you could let it die.

    Feb 25, 2007 2:45 pm1241 views
  • You are the person of the year. One of you? Two of you? All of you?

    Dec 24, 2006 12:15 am1455 views
  • Yo! A new gender-neutral pronoun from, of all places, Baltimore

    Jan 8, 2008 11:30 pm13025 views
  • "Yes, we want" -- Who owns global English?

    Apr 21, 2010 3:00 pm14243 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 pm8327 views
  • WTF? Swearing at work is good for business

    Oct 22, 2007 11:15 pm1941 views
  • WTF is the 2010 Word of the Year

    Dec 25, 2010 6:15 pm6616 views
  • Written Language Disorder: Medical researchers fear there's no cure for bad writing

    May 13, 2009 11:30 pm6010 views
  • Words don't lie: semantic mapping of presidential debate shows what's really on candidates' minds

    Sep 28, 2008 12:51 am1298 views
  • Words don't lie, part IV: Candidates debate role of plumbers in the White House

    Oct 16, 2008 1:00 pm3253 views
  • Words don't lie, part II: Perception Analyzer reveals no Jack Kennedys at vice presidential debate

    Oct 2, 2008 11:15 pm1071 views
  • Words don't lie, part III: Campaign rhetoric gives way to campaign linguistics

    Oct 8, 2008 10:27 pm928 views
  • With T-shirts at work, you can’t always say what you want

    Jul 11, 2015 11:15 pm1195 views
  • Without a net: Judges tell jurors with smart phones, "No surfing allowed"

    Mar 18, 2009 2:00 pm858 views
  • Will the Word Pedometer make babies smarter?

    Dec 22, 2019 1:15 pm6397 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 am6624 views
  • Will the real Gettysburg Address please stand up?

    Nov 16, 2013 1:45 pm227 views
  • Will the iPad change your life?

    Jan 28, 2010 12:05 am2863 views
  • Wikipedia: write first, ask questions later

    Mar 18, 2010 6:30 pm4419 views
  • Wichita's English-only school sued for discrimination

    May 23, 2008 10:15 pm2571 views
  • Why we misread

    Jun 30, 2012 11:15 pm7147 views
  • Why is National Grammar Day different from all other days?

    Mar 3, 2015 5:45 pm1640 views
  • Who owns American English? GM recalls every Chevy ever made, then says "Never mind."

    Jun 10, 2010 11:30 pm2422 views
  • Who defines marriage?

    Jul 1, 2015 12:45 pm3315 views
  • Who cares about National Grammar Day? Or is it whom?

    Mar 3, 2010 6:00 pm8157 views
  • " :) when you say that, pardner" -- the tweet police are watching

    Nov 13, 2010 10:30 pm6801 views
  • When you ask people for the words they hate, don’t complain when they tell you

    Aug 27, 2016 11:00 pm1817 views
  • When news breaks, people look it up in the dictionary

    Feb 25, 2011 4:15 pm3040 views
  • Message that users get when Trump blocks them

    When Donald Trump blocks you on Twitter, does he violate the First Amendment?

    Nov 8, 2017 11:00 am966 views
  • What to name the baby? Forget grandma, hire a consultant

    Jul 15, 2007 12:05 am2005 views
  • What's your pronoun?

    Sep 4, 2015 12:15 pm5434 views
  • What's wrong with English?

    Nov 12, 2006 8:45 pm1818 views
  • What's black and white and read all over: the internet

    Nov 16, 2012 2:00 pm1400 views
  • What if printed books went by ebook rules?

    Apr 20, 2015 11:00 pm793 views
  • Whatever is, you know, the word that Americans hate most

    Oct 12, 2009 10:15 pm7919 views
  • What do you call a retired professor?

    Feb 26, 2019 6:00 pm5442 views
  • Florida license plate with motto "The Banned Speech State"

    Welcome to the Banned Speech State

    Feb 17, 2026 10:45 am9175 views
  • The NASA Plaque on Pioneer 10, 1972

    “We come in peace,” or, how to talk to space aliens

    Sep 5, 2016 5:30 pm4427 views
  • Webster's lays down the law

    Jun 15, 2011 8:45 pm9139 views
  • Webster's banned for too much sex

    Jan 25, 2010 8:00 pm17624 views
  • Watching TV delays infant language, but don't touch that dial . . .

    Aug 14, 2007 10:44 pm2495 views
  • Washoe, chimp who learned sign language, dies at 42 without signing good-bye

    Nov 2, 2007 1:30 pm20975 views
  • "War on Terror" ends in England. Will U.S. stay the course?

    Dec 13, 2006 1:45 pm1111 views
  • Cover of What's Your Pronoun? Beyond he and she.

    Verbing pronouns

    Apr 20, 2020 10:00 am2361 views
  • Vatican 2.2? Wichita Catholic School goes English-only

    Oct 21, 2007 11:30 pm2665 views
  • Valentines for the author

    Feb 14, 2013 12:30 am1031 views
  • U.S. refuses to participate in International Mother Language Day until it's celebrated only in English

    Feb 21, 2009 12:30 am3541 views
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