new york city Crosswalk signals with authentic New York accents Rusty Blazenhoff

language This linguistic analysis of "The Pop-Punk Accent" is absolutely fascinating Thom Dunn

Food Some folks call green peppers "mangoes" for a centuries-old reason Andrea James

History Sixty years of A Confederacy of Dunces' Ignatius J. Reilly Elías Villoro

animation "The Magician's Elephant" Review: An Elephant-Sized Misfire for Netflix Greg Nussen

podcasts "The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling" podcast is out now Elías Villoro

movies 1954's Salt of the Earth told a powerful story of American labor Elías Villoro

Boing Boing Gadgets This text-to-speech synthesizer can provide realistic human voices, and it's only $37 Boing Boing's Shop

language An Australian language spoken by "barely anybody" Devin Nealy

just look at it Bananas canceled Mark Frauenfelder

Boing Boing Gadgets Broaden your language skills before Black Friday with Babbel, now over 50% off Boing Boing's Shop

History Why is the English language so weird and inconsistent? Blame the printing press. Thom Dunn

mistakes Finance startup names itself Nonce, a cryptographic term that is also UK term for child rapists Rob Beschizza

accents Watch this dialect coach speak in different U.S. accents Mark Frauenfelder

fiction Author Nalo Hopkinson named as the 37th SFWA Damon Knight Grand Master Thom Dunn

History Listen to Yola, an extinct dialect of English Rob Beschizza

video games Hilarious 1982 CBS report on Boston's zoning fight over video games Andrea James

rpgs Sci-fi novels paired with appropriate RPGs Gareth Branwyn

cult of the amateur Almost every article on the Scots version of Wikipedia is written by one American teenager who can't speak Scots Mark Frauenfelder