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Best dictionary for historical novelist?
Nov-11-08-6:20PM
by Etymology Fan
Oxford University Press US word of the year: “hypermiling”
Nov-10-08-7:14AM
by Grant Barrett
Canadese: Spellchecked into oblivion
Nov-09-08-5:24AM
#@!* What makes language ‘foul’?
‘M’ is for missiles; ‘N’ is for knives: “home in” vs. “hone in”
Nov-09-08-5:23AM
The week’s best invented words collected in the Toronto Star
Nov-09-08-5:22AM
Some British town councils avoid use of Latin in official docs
Nov-03-08-10:46AM
The Supreme Court considers the F-word
Nov-02-08-7:28AM
The political language of 2008
Nov-01-08-9:50AM
What is the correlation between transmission of genes and language?
Nov-01-08-9:49AM
You May Soon Know if You’re Hogging the Discussion
Oct-31-08-1:36PM
by Hoosier Handheld
Sign language: amusing signage
Oct-28-08-4:10PM
by EmmettRedd
Rwanda drops French and takes up English as an official language
Oct-17-08-5:38PM
by Unfrench Frenchman
Its Native Tongue Facing Extinction, Arapaho Tribe Teaches the Young
Oct-17-08-5:43AM
“Fail” as a mass noun instead of “failure”
Oct-15-08-12:01PM
Figuring out who people are by studying their word choices
Oct-14-08-7:10AM
Buzz factor: Annoyed by catch phrases? Chill out
Oct-12-08-3:37PM
Evangelical or evangelistic?
Oct-12-08-3:33PM
France in shock as dictionary Le Petit Robert relaxes language rules
Oct-12-08-3:25PM
In ‘Sweetie’ and ‘Dear,’ a Hurt for the Elderly: talking to seniors
Oct-10-08-10:59AM
by martha
The collapse of the English language: a satire
Oct-06-08-10:57AM
by Maggie
Book recommended . . . “My Name is ???”
Oct-03-08-8:17AM
A girl called ‘it’: Choosing the right pronoun for children
Oct-02-08-9:39AM
Saturday Child: One leg at a time
Oct-02-08-8:13AM
How should media handle coarse language by public figures?
Oct-02-08-7:15AM
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