360 |
How Writing to Deadlines Can Hold Your Life Together
|
18 Dec 2018 |
359 |
How Google’s Autotype Contradicts Orwell’s Advice
|
13 Dec 2018 |
358 |
The Web Page That Cannot Exist
|
3 Dec 2018 |
357 |
A Pocket Brexicon for American Academics
|
26 Nov 2018 |
356 |
Blasphemy and the Strange World of Linguistic Crimes
|
7 Nov 2018 |
355 |
A Moment of Sympathy for the Old Fogeys and Snoots
|
28 Oct 2018 |
354 |
Why Linguistics Matters
|
24 Oct 2018 |
353 |
Sir Harold Evans Sneers at a Book He Has Not Read
|
15 Oct 2018 |
352 |
Pure Gold, Buried Long Ago in the Book Review Columns
|
11 Oct 2018 |
351 |
What’s in a Name? A Government Loses a National Referendum Over an Adjective
|
1 Oct 2018 |
350 |
What’s the Fastest-Growing Language in the U.S.? You’ll Never Guess
|
25 Sep 2018 |
349 |
Nonsense About Universal Translation, Strictly for the Gullible
|
20 Sep 2018 |
348 |
How the Cold, Dead Hand of John Dryden Still Perpetuates Grammar Myths
|
10 Sep 2018 |
347 |
Merriam-Webster, Heal Thyself!
|
5 Sep 2018 |
346 |
The Perennial Difficulty of Defining What ‘Descriptive’ Means in Grammar
|
26 Aug 2018 |
345 |
Chinese Among High-School Seniors (and in the Movies)
|
21 Aug 2018 |
344 |
Learning Useless English Grammar in Japan
|
16 Aug 2018 |
343 |
Avoiding ‘False Titles’: How Some News Publications Try Not to Sound Like News Publications
|
6 Aug 2018 |
342 |
The Grammar of the Adjective Is Not What’s Wrong With ‘Illegal Alien’
|
1 Aug 2018 |
341 |
What’s an Anti-Semite? It Depends on Which Politician You Ask
|
25 Jul 2018 |
340 |
Writing on Philosophy: It’s Not Rocket Science. It’s More Complicated Than That.
|
17 Jul 2018 |
339 |
Friendly Communication Across Supposed Language Barriers
|
12 Jul 2018 |
338 |
The Triumph and Tragedy of Oscar Wilde
|
2 Jul 2018 |
337 |
Koko Is Dead, but the Myth of Her Linguistic Skills Lives On
|
27 Jun 2018 |
336 |
Strunk at 100: A Centennial Not to Celebrate
|
20 Jun 2018 |
335 |
Another Conquest by the Language That Is Eating the World
|
13 Jun 2018 |
334 |
Infinitives Can Be Split: Grammar Conservatives Face the Shock
|
7 Jun 2018 |
333 |
Amazon’s Alexa: Not Yet as Smart as a 5-Year-Old Child
|
27 May 2018 |
332 |
The Israel/Palestine Dispute Is Ill-Served by Uninformed Grammar Nitpicking
|
20 May 2018 |
331 |
Hello, Google Duplex? No Artificially Intelligent Calls, Please
|
13 May 2018 |
330 |
Fish, Cheese, and Gossip: 2,000 Years of Snobbery in the Suffix ‘-Monger’
|
8 May 2018 |
329 |
Watergate, Weinergate, and Windrush: the Naming of Political Scandals
|
2 May 2018 |
328 |
Emoji Are Ruining Grasp of English, Says Dumbest Language Story of the Week
|
23 Apr 2018 |
327 |
Can You Explain What a Shibboleth Is?
|
18 Apr 2018 |
326 |
Copy Editing and Proofreading a Book: It Takes a Village
|
8 Apr 2018 |
325 |
The Problem with the Ban on ‘There Are’ Constructions
|
3 Apr 2018 |
324 |
Ambiguous Adjectives and Unqualified Lesbians
|
29 Mar 2018 |
323 |
The Adverb That Killed a Friendship
|
19 Mar 2018 |
322 |
Taleb on Pinker: Neologism and Bile
|
14 Mar 2018 |
321 |
Spam-Driven Pollution of Academic Communication
|
6 Mar 2018 |
320 |
The Fictional Possessives-With-Gerunds Rule
|
1 Mar 2018 |
319 |
When ‘But’ Means ‘That ... Not’
|
25 Feb 2018 |
318 |
No Overtime Pay for Milk-Truck Drivers (or Professors)
|
12 Feb 2018 |
317 |
Talking Killer Whales? Gullible Science Journalists More Likely
|
7 Feb 2018 |
316 |
Negative or Positive? Answer (a) or (b)
|
28 Jan 2018 |
315 |
Bonehead Guidance for Would-Be Novelists
|
23 Jan 2018 |
314 |
Punctuate, Punctuate; Punctuate!
|
18 Jan 2018 |
313 |
‘A Foreign Way Which Never Really Caught On’
|
12 Jan 2018 |
312 |
The Boy from the Isle of Man
|
29 Dec 2017 |
311 |
It’s the Wine Talking
|
19 Dec 2017 |
310 |
The Fine Line Between Errors and Dialect Differences
|
14 Dec 2017 |
309 |
The Man Who Hated Relativism
|
4 Dec 2017 |
308 |
The Unmentionable Topic of Edinburgh Weather
|
29 Nov 2017 |
307 |
Answering a Question with a Question
|
21 Nov 2017 |
306 |
The Right to Tell People What They Do Not Want to Hear
|
15 Nov 2017 |
305 |
Final-Preposition Terror
|
5 Nov 2017 |
304 |
The Ballad of Bentley and Craig
|
2 Nov 2017 |
303 |
BuzzFeed Has Style Too
|
26 Oct 2017 |
302 |
The Strange Language of Harvey Weinstein’s Denial
|
15 Oct 2017 |
301 |
300 Up, Stil Getting It Wrong
|
11 Oct 2017 |
300 |
On the Ropes at Radio London
|
1 Oct 2017 |
299 |
The Subtle Art of English Ethnic Slurs
|
28 Sep 2017 |
298 |
Unapplied Linguistics
|
20 Sep 2017 |
297 |
It’s Not a Litmus Test
|
11 Sep 2017 |
296 |
A Philosopher-Grammarian Gets Something Right
|
6 Sep 2017 |
295 |
Bogus Advice for Op-Ed Authors
|
27 Aug 2017 |
294 |
Plain Talk About Public Murder
|
22 Aug 2017 |
293 |
Didn’t Know I Would Really Go
|
17 Aug 2017 |
292 |
Robots Gossiping in a Secret Language?
|
7 Aug 2017 |
291 |
Back to the Real World
|
2 Aug 2017 |
290 |
Being a Determinative
|
23 Jul 2017 |
289 |
‘The Americans Have No Adverbs’
|
17 Jul 2017 |
288 |
The Much-Needed Gap
|
12 Jul 2017 |
287 |
English Grammar Day
|
27 Jun 2017 |
286 |
Worst Sentence Ever Seen in Academic Prose
|
22 Jun 2017 |
285 |
Of Cadillacs and Prairie Dogs
|
12 Jun 2017 |
284 |
Why Won’t They Heed Plain Facts?
|
4 Jun 2017 |
283 |
Dracula, Strunk, and Correct English Usage
|
23 May 2017 |
282 |
Being a Declarative (or Interrogative, or Imperative, or Exclamative)
|
14 May 2017 |
281 |
The Importance of Being a Prince
|
8 May 2017 |
280 |
Grammar Blunders and Journalistic Discourtesy
|
3 May 2017 |
279 |
The Risky Business of Deadpan Humor
|
23 Apr 2017 |
278 |
Adverbs and United Airlines
|
18 Apr 2017 |
277 |
The Many First Rules of Politics
|
13 Apr 2017 |
276 |
The World’s Greatest Grammarian
|
03 Apr 2017 |
275 |
The Team Sat in Its Hotel Drinking Its Beers
|
28 Mar 2017 |
274 |
A Brown Eyed Handsome Man
|
24 Mar 2017 |
273 |
Word-Processing Misery
|
13 Mar 2017 |
272 |
Data Mining for Personally Targeted Politics
|
8 Mar 2017 |
271 |
Once More Into the Fray, Pluto (and Ixion, Among Others)
|
27 Feb 2017 |
270 |
Still Looking for a Triple
|
21 Feb 2017 |
269 |
For Want of a Copy Editor the Sense Was Lost
|
16 Feb 2017 |
268 |
How Not to Teach Chinese
|
6 Feb 2017 |
267 |
When Two Negatives Don’t Make a Positive
|
2 Feb 2017 |
266 |
Recovering My Heritage
|
26 Jan 2017 |
265 |
Agency Style, For Your Eyes Only
|
17 Jan 2017 |
264 |
Decrying Dialects and Despising Speakers
|
11 Jan 2017 |
263 |
If Only I Could Tell You
|
6 Jan 2017 |
262 |
Where Are the Happiness Boys?
|
19 Dec 2016 |
261 |
Make American Accents Great Again
|
13 Dec 2016 |
260 |
For Want of an Oxford Comma
|
6 Dec 2016 |
259 |
Arrival: Just Say Yes
|
28 Nov 2016 |
258 |
The Unoriginality of Orwell’s Critique of Language
|
13 Nov 2016 |
257 |
Sexual-Abuse Gangs and Racism
|
9 Nov 2016 |
256 |
Witticisms, Plagiarism, and Language History
|
3 Nov 2016 |
255 |
An Ill Wind That No One Blows Good
|
24 Oct 2016 |
254 |
Orgies, Convoys, and Precision in Word Meanings
|
20 Oct 2016 |
253 |
The Internet Isn’t Changing English. Nor the Converse
|
10 Oct 2016 |
252 |
The Anglophone Millstone
|
4 Oct 2016 |
251 |
To Seek Out New Vowels...
|
29 Sep 2016 |
250 |
Mensiversaries
|
20 Sep 2016 |
249 |
A Postcard from Brno
|
12 Sep 2016 |
248 |
The Two Voices of Trump
|
6 Sep 2016 |
247 |
Foul Things of the Night
|
31 Aug 2016 |
246 |
Machine-to-Human Communication: Nobody Cares
|
22 Aug 2016 |
245 |
The Linguistics of Assassination Threats
|
15 Aug 2016 |
244 |
In the Phonetic Jungle
|
12 Aug 2016 |
243 |
Reflections on the Trivium
|
1 Aug 2016 |
242 |
Finger-pointing, Trouble-saving, and Pussyfooting
|
27 Jul 2016 |
241 |
The World’s Best Philosopher of Linguistics
|
17 Jul 2016 |
240 |
The Worst Form of Government
|
12 Jul 2016 |
239 |
Being an Auxiliary
|
7 Jul 2016 |
238 |
Linguification: That’s the Name of the Game
|
27 Jun 2016 |
237 |
A Postcard from Schleswig-Holstein
|
23 Jun 2016 |
236 |
Direct Objects or Lack Thereof
|
13 Jun 2016 |
235 |
Liars and Snakes: Plumbing New Rhetorical Depths
|
7 Jun 2016 |
234 |
Triciaisms
|
3 Jun 2016 |
233 |
Syntactic Self-Harm on St James’s Street
|
23 May 2016 |
232 |
‘Genderqueer’ and ‘Baconsphere’
|
18 May 2016 |
231 |
Grammar-Test Dispute Resolution
|
8 May 2016 |
230 |
Famous Women, Banknotes, and Online Abuse
|
3 May 2016 |
229 |
The Social Consequences of Switching to English
|
28 Apr 2016 |
228 |
Correct/Incorrect Grammar-Test Items
|
18 Apr 2016 |
227 |
Let Us Edit Your Article
|
13 Apr 2016 |
226 |
Being an Antecedent
|
3 Apr 2016 |
225 |
Being a Subjunctive
|
29 Mar 2016 |
224 |
Sentences I Hope Never to Use
|
24 Mar 2016 |
223 |
Scalia’s Linguistic Acumen
|
10 Mar 2016 |
222 |
Being an Interjection
|
1 Mar 2016 |
221 |
Leaps in the Dark: the Discourse of Brexit
|
24 Feb 2016 |
220 |
Polysemy and Maturity
|
18 Feb 2016 |
219 |
To Co-Author, or Not to Co-Author?
|
12 Feb 2016 |
218 |
Tricia
|
4 Feb 2016 |
217 |
They Will Never Forget You...
|
25 Jan 2016 |
216 |
The Awful Chinese Writing System
|
21 Jan 2016 |
215 |
Grown-Ups Deserve Better
|
14 Jan 2016 |
214 |
The Quiet Certainty of Antedating
|
5 Jan 2016 |
213 |
The Footprints of a Gigantic Hound
|
14 Dec 2015 |
212 |
‘People of Color’
|
8 Dec 2015 |
211 |
English and Its Undeserved Good Luck
|
3 Dec 2015 |
210 |
The Unsuitability of English
|
24 Nov 2015 |
209 |
A Postcard from Bilbao
|
16 Nov 2015 |
208 |
Prepositions as Conjunctions, Whales as Fish
|
9 Nov 2015 |
207 |
Only in the Right Position
|
4 Nov 2015 |
206 |
Evasive Passives in Texas
|
27 Oct 2015 |
205 |
Being a Pronoun
|
22 Oct 2015 |
204 |
Saying ‘the’ in German
|
11 Oct 2015 |
203 |
The Third Flaw in the Second Amendment
|
7 Oct 2015 |
202 |
Everyday Artificial Stupidity
|
1 Oct 2015 |
201 |
Sex and Verbs and Rock ’n’ Roll
|
21 Sep 2015 |
200 |
Pointless Vocabulary Diversity and Grammatical Structure
|
16 Sep 2015 |
199 |
Best Linguistic Jokes of the 2015 Fringe
|
1 Sep 2015 |
198 |
The Structure of University Names
|
27 Aug 2015 |
197 |
Crisis Management and Proper Usage
|
17 Aug 2015 |
196 |
Etymology Is Not Destiny
|
12 Aug 2015 |
195 |
Unspeakable Drug Names
|
2 Aug 2015 |
194 |
What Language Learning Cannot Be
|
27 Jul 2015 |
193 |
The Fringe Is Coming to Town
|
21 Jul 2015 |
192 |
What ‘One’ Means to a Linguist
|
16 Jul 2015 |
191 |
Human Resources and Thought Control
|
7 Jul 2015 |
190 |
Babbler Birds and Babbling Journalists
|
1 Jul 2015 |
189 |
Revolutionary Methodological Preliminaries
|
21 Jun 2015 |
188 |
36 Words
|
16 Jun 2015 |
187 |
Scrabbling for Words
|
11 Jun 2015 |
186 |
Take My Metadata
|
1 Jun 2015 |
185 |
An Honor and a Horror
|
27 May 2015 |
184 |
Competence, Performance, and Climate
|
17 May 2015 |
183 |
Legal and Illegal Commas
|
12 May 2015 |
182 |
Dumb Copy Editing Survives
|
7 May 2015 |
181 |
Diary of a Visiting Speaker
|
27 Apr 2015 |
180 |
Truly Incompetent English
|
22 Apr 2015 |
179 |
A Certain Closeness
|
12 Apr 2015 |
178 |
Passive Verbosity Again
|
8 Apr 2015 |
177 |
An Insult from Professor Faxman
|
30 Mar 2015 |
176 |
On Writing Well About Passives
|
26 Mar 2015 |
175 |
Swinging for His Supper
|
17 Mar 2015 |
174 |
Lain, the Whom of the Verb World
|
8 Mar 2015 |
173 |
The International Phonetic Alphabet
|
4 Mar 2015 |
172 |
Having a Problem With ‘Having a Problem With’
|
23 Feb 2015 |
171 |
Free Speech, the Rough and the Smooth
|
19 Feb 2015 |
170 |
Comprise Yourself
|
10 Feb 2015 |
169 |
‘Ongoing Plethora’? Not What It Appears
|
1 Feb 2015 |
168 |
Garage Sociolinguistics
|
28 Jan 2015 |
167 |
The Rules for Essay Exams
|
19 Jan 2015 |
166 |
He (or Possibly Him?) as Head
|
15 Jan 2015 |
165 |
Renée Zellweger as a Verb? I Don’t Think So
|
6 Jan 2015 |
164 |
George Curme, Orthographic Radical
|
14 Dec 2014 |
163 |
George Curme, 21st-Century Grammarian
|
10 Dec 2014 |
162 |
A Postcard from Vienna
|
1 Dec 2014 |
161 |
Disputing Linguistic Myths
|
18 Nov 2014 |
160 |
The Decline of Grammar Education
|
9 Nov 2014 |
159 |
Writing Instructors: Your Pain Is Felt
|
6 Nov 2014 |
158 |
Professor Pinker and Professor Strunk
|
27 Oct 2014 |
157 |
Talking About Word Aversion on TV
|
23 Oct 2014 |
156 |
If Not Me Then Who?
|
14 Oct 2014 |
155 |
Dumb Writing Advice, Part 2: Yielding to Nitwits
|
5 Oct 2014 |
154 |
Dumb Writing Advice, Part 1: Word Prohibitions
|
1 Oct 2014 |
153 |
6 Likes, Liked and Disliked
|
22 Sep 2014 |
152 |
Being a Subject
|
18 Sep 2014 |
151 |
Better Together for Whom?
|
9 Sep 2014 |
150 |
The Case of the Sinister Buttocks
|
4 Sep 2014 |
149 |
Why Well-Formed Nonsense Doesn’t Matter
|
27 Aug 2014 |
148 |
Computer Says B-Plus
|
17 Aug 2014 |
147 |
Grammatical Icing on the Political Cake
|
13 Aug 2014 |
146 |
Speaking Out Against Hate Speech (Or Not)
|
4 Aug 2014 |
145 |
Verb Agreement and Hurdling
|
31 Jul 2014 |
144 |
Valid Pronoun-Ambiguity Warnings
|
22 Jul 2014 |
143 |
The Etiology of Turgid Drivel
|
16 Jul 2014 |
142 |
Mandarin Myths
|
7 Jul 2014 |
141 |
The True Secret of Office Packing
|
26 Jun 2014 |
140 |
Grammatical Shades of Grey
|
17 Jun 2014 |
139 |
Mere W*rds
|
8 Jun 2014 |
138 |
New Book, Same Old Grammar-Babble
|
4 Jun 2014 |
137 |
The Vague Main Clause of the Second Amendment
|
26 May 2014 |
136 |
The Politics of Taboo Words
|
18 May 2014 |
135 |
Bait-and-Switch Comparisons
|
12 May 2014 |
134 |
Caricaturing Descriptive Grammarians
|
8 May 2014 |
133 |
There Was No Committee
|
29 Apr 2014 |
132 |
And the Other Is a Jellyfish
|
20 Apr 2014 |
131 |
A Postcard from Salzburg
|
16 Apr 2014 |
130 |
No Language for Lottie
|
7 Apr 2014 |
129 |
Dolphin Talk and Human Credulity
|
3 Apr 2014 |
128 |
Communicating with the Public
|
25 Mar 2014 |
127 |
Undivided by a Common Language
|
16 Mar 2014 |
126 |
Brevity and Attractiveness: Misreporting Linguistic Science
|
12 Mar 2014 |
125 |
Linguistics qua Affliction
|
3 Mar 2014 |
124 |
Real-Time Automated Essay Writing?
|
24 Feb 2014 |
123 |
Coming and Going
|
18 Feb 2014 |
122 |
Politeness in Refereeing Favor Requests
|
9 Feb 2014 |
121 |
Spot the Captain
|
5 Feb 2014 |
120 |
Not Cricket
|
27 Jan 2014 |
119 |
‘Concern Trolls,’ Passives, and Vultures
|
23 Jan 2014 |
118 |
Moths to the Flame of Meaning
|
14 Jan 2014 |
117 |
Summarize Your Thesis (One Line)
|
8 Jan 2014 |
116 |
Lord Quirk Drops the Ball
|
18 Dec 2013 |
115 |
Banning Students’ Native Dialects
|
9 Dec 2013 |
114 |
Google Reads Your Emails?
|
5 Dec 2013 |
113 |
Not Whether, but When
|
26 Nov 2013 |
112 |
When We Do Not Agree
|
17 Nov 2013 |
111 |
Lying About Writing
|
13 Nov 2013 |
110 |
Was It Really Oscar?
|
4 Nov 2013 |
109 |
Linguistic Fuel for a Political Brushfire
|
31 Oct 2013 |
108 |
Be Fair, Oscar
|
21 Oct 2013 |
107 |
The Higgs: Names Becoming Common Nouns
|
17 Oct 2013 |
106 |
‘The Guardian’ Opposes Zombie Rules
|
8 Oct 2013 |
105 |
Is the Cognitive Revolution Here Yet?
|
29 Sep 2013 |
104 |
Can Goofy Headlines Cost You Money?
|
25 Sep 2013 |
103 |
Keep Your Multilingualism to Yourself
|
16 Sep 2013 |
102 |
Gentler, Cuddlier Grammarians
|
12 Sep 2013 |
101 |
Who’d Want to Be a Dick Swiveller?
|
3 Sep 2013 |
100 |
From Netherlandic-German to Multilingual Sardinia
|
25 Aug 2013 |
99 |
Counting the Languages of the World
|
21 Aug 2013 |
98 |
Being Wrong to Be Right
|
12 Aug 2013 |
97 |
Hungarian I Am Not
|
8 Aug 2013 |
96 |
Is Strunk Bunk? a Game-Changing New Development
|
30 Jul 2013 |
95 |
The Great Fitzgerald
|
21 Jul 2013 |
94 |
Blowing in the Political Wind
|
17 Jul 2013 |
93 |
Extractor Fans, Big Brother, and the Passive
|
8 Jul 2013 |
92 |
A Postcard from Galicia
|
25 Jun 2013 |
91 |
You’re Wrong and I’m Changing the Subject
|
16 Jun 2013 |
90 |
A Trinity of Languages
|
12 Jun 2013 |
89 |
Getting In and Out (and Looked At)
|
3 Jun 2013 |
88 |
Machine Translation Without the Translation
|
30 May 2013 |
87 |
Speech Recognition vs. Language Processing
|
22 May 2013 |
86 |
Keyword Search, Plus a Little Magic
|
12 May 2013 |
85 |
Why Are We Still Waiting for Natural Language Processing?
|
8 May 2013 |
84 |
Being a Conjunction (slash Coordinator)
|
29 Apr 2013 |
83 |
We Do Not Seek to Rule
|
25 Apr 2013 |
82 |
King Jong-un
|
16 Apr 2013 |
81 |
Orwell and the Not Unblack Dog
|
7 Apr 2013 |
80 |
Elimination of the Fittest
|
3 Apr 2013 |
79 |
Fair Comment and Privileged Occasions
|
25 Mar 2013 |
78 |
Being an Apostrophe
|
21 Mar 2013 |
77 |
Quite
|
12 Mar 2013 |
76 |
Spurious Correlations Everywhere: The Tragedy of Big Data
|
3 Mar 2013 |
75 |
Predicting Prudence from Tense Marking?
|
27 Feb 2013 |
74 |
Being an Adverb
|
19 Feb 2013 |
73 |
Revision, Respect, and Etymological Cleansing
|
10 Feb 2013 |
72 |
Being a Preposition
|
4 Feb 2013 |
71 |
Humor Detection Module Not Innate
|
28 Jan 2013 |
70 |
The Hacks and the Hackers
|
20 Jan 2013 |
69 |
Being an Adjective
|
13 Jan 2013 |
68 |
Stopping to Consider Language Acquisition
|
9 Jan 2013 |
67 |
Grammar to the Rescue
|
19 Dec 2012 |
66 |
Shaken, Not Stirred
|
10 Dec 2012 |
65 |
A Rule Which Will Live in Infamy
|
6 Dec 2012 |
64 |
One Rule to Ring Them All
|
29 Nov 2012 |
63 |
Don’t Blame Your Moods on Your Language
|
18 Nov 2012 |
62 |
That’s Right
|
12 Nov 2012 |
61 |
Grammatical Relationship Counseling Needed
|
8 Nov 2012 |
60 |
Frankenwords
|
30 Oct 2012 |
59 |
Illegal Immigrants and Marine Biologists
|
21 Oct 2012 |
58 |
What Words to Say, What Sort of Person to Be
|
18 Oct 2012 |
57 |
Passive Writing at the Daily Planet
|
8 Oct 2012 |
56 |
More Grammar Hate Mail
|
4 Oct 2012 |
55 |
Not Lovecraft’s Providence
|
25 Sep 2012 |
54 |
Lovecraft’s Providence
|
16 Sep 2012 |
53 |
Organic Syntax
|
12 Sep 2012 |
52 |
The Planet of Chongqing
|
6 Sep 2012 |
51 |
Rules That Eat Your Brain
|
28 Aug 2012 |
50 |
Even That Would Be a Grammar
|
19 Aug 2012 |
49 |
You Are Software; Don’t Greet Me
|
15 Aug 2012 |
48 |
The Riddle of Frisney and Frarney
|
6 Aug 2012 |
47 |
Spelling Random Lexical Flotsam
|
2 Aug 2012 |
46 |
Fairies
|
24 Jul 2012 |
45 |
Speak Up!
|
15 Jul 2012 |
44 |
Away From One’s Desk
|
11 Jul 2012 |
43 |
‘Wall Street Journal’ Pushes Grammar Panic
|
2 Jul 2012 |
42 |
Remembering Alan Turing
|
27 Jun 2012 |
41 |
Being a Noun
|
19 Jun 2012 |
40 |
When Your Computer Is as Easy to Use as Your Phone
|
10 Jun 2012 |
39 |
More on the ‘However’ Myth
|
6 Jun 2012 |
38 |
The Case of the Extra Word
|
28 May 2012 |
37 |
Forget me, Scott Reed
|
23 May 2012 |
36 |
Lying About Language
|
14 May 2012 |
35 |
Beliefs About Grammar and Extraterrestrials
|
10 May 2012 |
34 |
The Quality-Length Correlation
|
1 May 2012 |
33 |
‘Hopefully’: Five Decades of Foolishness
|
22 Apr 2012 |
32 |
Not Rage So Much, but a Modicum of Fear
|
17 Apr 2012 |
31 |
A Great Space for Nitpicking
|
9 Apr 2012 |
30 |
Being a Verb
|
5 Apr 2012 |
29 |
The Rise and Fall of a Venomous Dispute
|
27 Mar 2012 |
28 |
Passives, Pandas, and Dangling Modifiers
|
18 Mar 2012 |
27 |
The Bad Science Reporting Effect
|
14 Mar 2012 |
26 |
Foreign Language Education, Part 3: Accentuating the Positive
|
5 Mar 2012 |
25 |
More on How to Argue for Foreign-Language Instruction
|
1 Mar 2012 |
24 |
How to Argue for Foreign Language Instruction
|
21 Feb 2012 |
23 |
Literary Judgment Marred by Dumb Grammar Myth
|
13 Feb 2012 |
22 |
Ferment and Befuddlement
|
5 Feb 2012 |
21 |
Legislating Language and Truth
|
1 Feb 2012 |
20 |
Normal and Formal
|
17 Jan 2012 |
19 |
Shock: Writer Avoids Mentioning Passive!
|
26 Jan 2012 |
18 |
The Year of ‘Occupy’
|
8 Jan 2012 |
17 |
Dogma vs. Evidence: Singular They
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4 Jan 2012 |
16 |
Pronoun Agreement Out the Window?
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15 Dec 2011 |
15 |
Academic Hate Mail
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5 Dec 2011 |
14 |
Beware the Misles
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30 Nov 2011 |
13 |
A Thanksgiving for Susie
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20 Nov 2011 |
12 |
More Linguistic Slush From the Arctic
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15 Nov 2011 |
11 |
I Will Never Be a Ranter
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10 Nov 2011 |
10 |
Permalinks, Ensparbulation, Etc.
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1 Nov 2011 |
9 |
Love Among the Participles
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26 Oct 2011 |
8 |
Attack the Muffled Mendacities of the Administrative Creatures
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19 Oct 2011 |
7 |
Glovens and Webinars
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14 Oct 2011 |
6 |
Mistakes Are Made (But Using the Passive Isn’t One of Them)
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1 Oct 2011 |
5 |
Jack Reacher Flunks Phonetics
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26 Sep 2011 |
4 |
Chasing Me!
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21 Sep 2011 |
3 |
Invaders from America … Not!
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14 Sep 2011 |
2 |
In the Time of Declarative Sentences
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8 Sep 2011 |
1 |
I Wish I’d Said That
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26 Aug 2011 |