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Can “Y’all” Mean Just One Person?
Arika Okrent
Oct 03, 2014
11:13 AM
How to Call In Sick: 21 Complicated Terms for Minor Illnesses
Arika Okrent
Sept 04, 2014
10:54 AM
Why Isn’t “Arkansas” Pronounced Like “Kansas”?
Arika Okrent
Aug 27, 2014
10:02 AM
Fadoodling and the Paphian Jig: 29 Historic Slang Terms for Sex
Arika Okrent
Aug 15, 2014
11:27 AM
Watch Germans Try to Pronounce the Word Squirrel
Arika Okrent
June 11, 2014
11:20 AM
The Schwa Is the Laziest Sound in All of Human Speech
Arika Okrent
June 05, 2014
9:52 AM
Beautiful Fonts from Ages Gone By
Arika Okrent
May 09, 2014
3:28 PM
In Defense of I Could Care Less
Arika Okrent
March 18, 2014
10:09 AM
Words of the Year from Around the World. Can You Say Gubbploga?
Arika Okrent
Jan 23, 2014
4:07 PM
Why This Young Girl Is a Masterful Storyteller in Sign Language
Arika Okrent
Jan 03, 2014
10:12 AM
The Peculiar Grammar of Christmas Songs
Arika Okrent
Dec 19, 2013
11:34 AM
Watch Surfers and Valley Girls Explain the Latest Slang in This 1980s Documentary
Arika Okrent
Dec 03, 2013
12:01 PM
Why Is the Word the So Difficult to Define?
Arika Okrent
Nov 19, 2013
1:02 PM
Mystery Solved: The Etymology of Dude
Arika Okrent
Nov 05, 2013
9:44 AM
A Post-Military Taxonomy of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
Arika Okrent
Oct 02, 2013
11:56 AM
What happens when language scientists use their own children as test subjects?
Arika Okrent
Sept 08, 2010
4:14 PM
Avatar fans are learning how to speak Na’vi.
Arika Okrent
March 24, 2010
10:51 AM
A history of Klingon, the language.
Arika Okrent
May 07, 2009
11:54 AM