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Are Apostrophes Necessary? No, Not Really.
Matthew J.X. Malady
May 23, 2013
12:07 PM
Why Do People Hate Certain Words?
Matthew J.X. Malady
April 01, 2013
5:41 AM
“Bridezilla” Is Not a Pun, and You Are Not Clever
Simon Akam
March 06, 2013
5:37 AM
How the Northern Cities Shift Is Revolutionizing the English Language
Rob Mifsud
Aug 22, 2012
7:34 AM
Why the Rules of Language Are Both Arbitrary and Essential
Steven Pinker
May 31, 2012
6:50 AM
It’s Time To Retire the Phrase “Chink in the Armor”
Huan Hsu
Feb 21, 2012
5:05 PM
British People Do Not Actually Call Umbrellas Bumbershoots
Ben Yagoda
Nov 04, 2011
12:52 PM
Britishisms: cataloging how they’re infecting American English.
Ben Yagoda
Sept 20, 2011
12:57 PM
Slang tenacity: What makes words stick?
Juliet Lapidos
Aug 18, 2011
7:37 AM
Um, uh, ah: In praise of verbal stumbles.
Michael Erard
July 26, 2011
10:06 AM
Inca Paradox: Maybe the pre-Columbian civilization did have writing.
Mark Adams
July 12, 2011
11:03 AM
Em dashes—why writers should use them more sparingly.
Noreen Malone
May 24, 2011
4:32 PM
Logical punctuation: Should we start placing commas outside quotation marks?
Ben Yagoda
May 12, 2011
10:07 AM
Wikipedia’s “Macaca” entry: Read it with care.
Chris Wilson
April 26, 2011
7:03 AM
Disinterested or uninterested? How long we should cling to a word’s original meaning.
Ben Yagoda
April 07, 2011
10:08 AM
Why do Tea Partiers capitalize their nouns?
Jon Lackman
Nov 01, 2010
6:12 PM
What happens when language scientists use their own children as test subjects?
Arika Okrent
Sept 08, 2010
4:14 PM
The words David Foster Wallace circled in his dictionary.
It’s time for pundits to stop using the word “kabuki.’
Jon Lackman
April 14, 2010
7:03 AM
Avatar fans are learning how to speak Na’vi.
Arika Okrent
March 24, 2010
10:51 AM
