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cornell university Cornell English Department votes to change name to "Department of Literatures In English" Thom Dunn
en-dashes AP's how-to-use-hyphens-wisely guide causes consternation among pedants Cory Doctorow
Psychophysicotherapeutics Parisians try to pronounce challenging English words like 'squirrel' and 'Massachusetts' Rusty Blazenhoff
"Ass" is the most complicated word in the English language Andrea James
What English-language courtroom dramas sounds like to Swedes Rob Beschizza
iguanas How to pronounce "Iguana" in English correctly Rob Beschizza
What does English sound like to Italians? Listen to this 1972 pop song Mark Frauenfelder
Barbaric, backwards ancestor worship Cory Doctorow
Animated history of the English language Maggie Koerth
flame-war tinderbox Y'all shouldn't feel bad about using "y'all" Maggie Koerth