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The Rise of They
John H. McWhorter
Aug 21, 2018
10:04 AM
What Does The Band’s Visit Tell Us About Language?
John H. McWhorter
June 26, 2018
1:56 PM
Getting to Yes
John H. McWhorter
May 01, 2018
11:54 AM
English Spelling Is a Beautiful Mess
John H. McWhorter
April 03, 2018
11:26 AM
There Are Two N-Words
John H. McWhorter
Jan 09, 2018
11:32 AM
New Life for Dying Languages
John H. McWhorter
Aug 08, 2017
2:31 PM
Negatory! A Brief History of No.
John H. McWhorter
July 25, 2017
1:01 PM
Why Do Languages Have Contractions?
John H. McWhorter
July 11, 2017
12:33 PM
Is There a Jewish Way of Talking?
John H. McWhorter
June 13, 2017
1:36 PM
Mining Graffiti for Slang
John H. McWhorter
May 30, 2017
4:18 PM
Don’t Tell Me Reune Is Not a Word!
John H. McWhorter
May 16, 2017
12:47 PM
Heyo, Let’s Talk About Hamilton
John H. McWhorter
April 04, 2017
1:31 PM
The Dad-ification of Language Shows That Masculinity Is Still Evolving
John Kelly
Dec 02, 2016
9:00 AM
Is Black English the New Lingua Franca?
John H. McWhorter
Nov 30, 2016
12:03 PM
I Went Looking For “The Good Ol’ Days.” It Took Me Back 5,000 Years.
Jason Feifer
Nov 30, 2016
9:30 AM
The Redundant “Close Proximity” Is Way More Beloved Than It Should Be
Murray Carpenter
Nov 29, 2016
11:58 AM
In Moments of Crisis, Should You Really “Run, Hide, Fight”?
David Canfield
Nov 28, 2016
3:37 PM
There’s No Better Term for the Alt-Right Than Alt-Right
Osita Nwanevu
Nov 22, 2016
6:52 PM
Stress-Cleaning, Gilmore Girls Therapy, and the Wordplay of Post-Election Coping Strategies
John Kelly
Nov 21, 2016
10:54 AM
Why We Shouldn’t Talk About “Normalizing” Donald Trump
Katy Waldman
Nov 17, 2016
2:02 PM