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The Word of the Year for 2016 Isn’t a Word. It’s a Number.
John Kelly
Dec 14, 2016
8:03 AM
The Dad-ification of Language Shows That Masculinity Is Still Evolving
John Kelly
Dec 02, 2016
9:00 AM
Stress-Cleaning, Gilmore Girls Therapy, and the Wordplay of Post-Election Coping Strategies
John Kelly
Nov 21, 2016
10:54 AM
The Cowardice of Asking “What Happened” on Election Night
John Kelly
Nov 17, 2016
11:05 AM
The 2016 Presidential Election Has Created a New Verb
John Kelly
Nov 08, 2016
9:00 AM
What’s With All Trump’s Talk About “Draining the Swamp”?
John Kelly
Oct 26, 2016
10:59 AM
In Honor of the GOP Nominee: What Exactly Is an Assclown?
John Kelly
Oct 24, 2016
9:30 AM
The Strange and Searching Linguistic Experiments on Bon Iver’s 22, a Million
John Kelly
Oct 21, 2016
9:30 AM
When Did Baked In Become So Baked In?
John Kelly
Oct 14, 2016
11:40 AM
Is Fat Becoming a Swear Word? And Is That a Bad Thing?
John Kelly
Oct 10, 2016
9:30 AM
In Praise of Brangelexit
John Kelly
Sept 28, 2016
10:51 AM
Washingtonian, Lincolnian, Trumpian: Is Trumpian Destined to Become the Greatest Adjective in the Land?
John Kelly
Sept 22, 2016
10:00 AM
Forget the “Deplorables.” It’s the “Basket” That Makes Hillary’s Metaphor So Provocative.
John Kelly
Sept 13, 2016
10:39 AM
Once Upon a Time, a Sausage Party Was Just a Party With Sausages
John Kelly
Sept 08, 2016
10:08 AM
We Have Questions to Raise About the Insidiously Banal Phrase Raises Questions
John Kelly
Sept 07, 2016
1:48 PM
Everything Is Weaponized Now. This Is a Good Sign for Peace.
John Kelly
Aug 30, 2016
9:30 AM
How ’80s Is the Slang in Stranger Things?
John Kelly
Aug 23, 2016
9:30 AM
From Jefferson to Donald Trump, a Brief History of Presidential “Temperament”
John Kelly
Aug 15, 2016
1:08 PM
What the Ancient Epinikion, or Victory Song, Teaches Us About Olympic Athletes
John Kelly
Aug 11, 2016
2:05 PM
1/ Everyone Is Composing Long, Numbered, Slash-y Threads on Twitter. 2/2 Here’s Why.
John Kelly
Aug 04, 2016
9:30 AM