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

language How to talk about time in a language that doesn't have any tenses Thom Dunn

music History of Prisencolinensinainciusol, the gibberish English song that charmed Italy and the world Thom Dunn

Reviews Watching "Herself" while reading "Himself" Thom Dunn

language Noam Chomsky on Nim Chimpsky and the emergence of language Thom Dunn

linguistics Our centuries-old use of "they" as a singular pronoun Clive Thompson

COVID-19 "Pandemic" is the Dictionary.com word of the year. Thom Dunn

star wars "The Mandalorian" recruited a Deaf actor to create the Tusken Raiders' sign language Thom Dunn

linguistics A great fucking explanation of expletive in-fucking-sertion Thom Dunn

racism The Merriam-Webster Dictionary has officially changed the definition of "racism." Thom Dunn

silicon valley What is "garbage language" and why is it so hard to avoid using? Thom Dunn

language A fascinating map of the most spoken languages in every US state besides English and Spanish Thom Dunn

humor Dante's Hell re-imagined as linguistic sins Gareth Branwyn

language The Merriam-Webster dictionary's word of the year is… David Pescovitz

language Fun interactive way to see what words were first used in print in a particular year David Pescovitz

language How to speak chimpanzee David Pescovitz

fantasy The colonialism behind fantasy's vaguely Irish Elves Thom Dunn

politics Open archive of 240,000 hours' worth of talk radio, including 2.8 billion words of machine-transcription Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Because Internet: the new linguistics of informal English Cory Doctorow

linguistics Guess what languages these people are speaking David Pescovitz