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  • dialect This linguistic analysis of "The Pop-Punk Accent" is absolutely fascinating Thom Dunn
  • dates Today is a palindrome and an ambigram David Pescovitz
  • britishisms Poll warns "Colder Than A Witch's T!t" and other phrases in danger of dying out Thom Dunn
  • slang Boomers love to say "woke" but (surprise!) hate "OK boomer" and "mansplain," according to new survey David Pescovitz
  • english as she is spoken Why is the English language so weird and inconsistent? Blame the printing press. Thom Dunn
  • down's syndrome How the language of special education denigrates kids with disabilities Thom Dunn
  • tense How to talk about time in a language that doesn't have any tenses Thom Dunn
  • italian music History of Prisencolinensinainciusol, the gibberish English song that charmed Italy and the world Thom Dunn
  • herself Watching "Herself" while reading "Himself" Thom Dunn
  • nim chimsky Noam Chomsky on Nim Chimpsky and the emergence of language Thom Dunn
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    they Our centuries-old use of "they" as a singular pronoun Clive Thompson
  • coronacoinages "Pandemic" is the Dictionary.com word of the year. Thom Dunn
  • sand people "The Mandalorian" recruited a Deaf actor to create the Tusken Raiders' sign language Thom Dunn
  • expletive infixation A great fucking explanation of expletive in-fucking-sertion Thom Dunn
  • merriam-webster The Merriam-Webster Dictionary has officially changed the definition of "racism." Thom Dunn
  • garbage language What is "garbage language" and why is it so hard to avoid using? Thom Dunn
  • multilanguage A fascinating map of the most spoken languages in every US state besides English and Spanish Thom Dunn
  • Dante Dante's Hell re-imagined as linguistic sins Gareth Branwyn
  • dictionaries The Merriam-Webster dictionary's word of the year is… David Pescovitz
  • dictionaries Fun interactive way to see what words were first used in print in a particular year David Pescovitz
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