Science Deaf kids in 1980s Nicaragua created a language from thin air Ellsworth Toohey

maps This dialect map covers all of North America's English accents Gail Sherman

Science Your brain can crack a new language's patterns in three days. Fluency takes 64 weeks. Ellsworth Toohey

Culture Struggling to understand Gen Alpha? Here's a twelve-minute primer on their slang Jennifer Sandlin

Science Scientists decode the universal language pattern in 40,000 stories Ellsworth Toohey

linguistics This tiny North Carolina island is last place in America where people talk like actual pirates (video) Ellsworth Toohey

language In defense of the hard C Thom Dunn

linguistics Pittsburgh smokers more inclined to say "Jagoff" than "Yinz" Rob Beschizza

Science Breakthrough in understanding whale language David Pescovitz

AI Noam Chomsky explains the difference between ChatGPT and "True Intelligence" Thom Dunn

Cryptozoology The cryptid complications of Wikipedia's editing policies Thom Dunn

language "Turkey" is now officially Türkiye within the US State Department David Pescovitz

africa New evidence of African writing system that pre-dates European colonialists Thom Dunn

linguistics Irish Goodbye = French Leave = English Departure = Polish Goodbye = Dutch Leave Andrew Yi

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

language Today is a palindrome and an ambigram David Pescovitz

language Poll warns "Colder Than A Witch's T!t" and other phrases in danger of dying out Thom Dunn

language Boomers love to say "woke" but (surprise!) hate "OK boomer" and "mansplain," according to new survey David Pescovitz

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

language How the language of special education denigrates kids with disabilities Thom Dunn