‘Vape’ is your Oxford Dictionaries Word of 2014
But it’s been around longer than you think.
On Nov 18, 2014 by Miles Klee
The Internet didn’t like Mark Zuckerberg’s Chinese accent
Zuck woos China.
On Oct 23, 2014 by Taylor Hatmaker
How language nerds create Latin words for the 21st century
How language nerds create Latin words for the 21st century.
On Sep 29, 2014 by Greg Stevens
Oxford Dictionaries adds ‘subtweet,’ ‘neckbeard,’ ‘catfish,’ and more
ICYMI.
On Aug 14, 2014 by Miles Klee
This English guy is teaching Japanese people how to swear
One guy’s doing what other English and Japanese teachers can’t.
On Jun 23, 2014 by Michelle Jaworski
‘Soccer’ isn’t an American word
New research suggests the Brits actually invented the term they make fun of Americans for using.
On Jun 19, 2014 by Jack Flanagan
Obama to America: Pronounce ‘GIF’ with a hard ‘G’
It’s a hard “G,” as in “government oversight.”
On Jun 13, 2014 by Miles Klee
Twitter is really bad at spelling ‘World Cup’
GRRRRROOOOOOAAAAAALLLLL!
On Jun 12, 2014 by Miles Klee
The Beyoncé tour of Urban Dictionary
Her dominance over our vocabularies is really above and beyon… cé.
On Jun 11, 2014 by Molly McHugh
What we learned from a 7-year tour of @everyword
Parting is such sweet sorrow. Or hardship. Or agony.
On Jun 5, 2014 by Miles Klee
There really is such a thing as a grammar Nazi
The American Nazi Party insists fellow Jew-haters use proper English.
On Jun 3, 2014 by Miles Klee
The Internet is killing most languages
But some will still survive in the “meat space.”
On Apr 3, 2014 by [email protected]
Want to read the world’s longest palindrome sentence? Get comfortable
A man, a plan, a computer program, etc. This thing is 17,826 words.
On Mar 29, 2014 by Miles Klee
The AP Stylebook’s latest change is wrong, but that’s never mattered less
Over? More than? There’s more than meets the eye to the latest linguistic meltdown.
On Mar 20, 2014 by Miles Klee
Twitter users post 10,000 racist slurs every day, study finds
Most of the 10,000 slurs we tweet every day aren’t intended to be derogatory, but that doesn’t make them any less disturbing.
On Feb 13, 2014 by Aja Romano
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