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December 19, 2013
John McWhorter
This American Dictionary Is Full of Words You've Never Heard Before
An ambitious attempt to document the differences in regional English
November 25, 2013
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Ben Crair
The Period Is Pissed
When did our plainest punctuation mark become so aggressive?
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November 22, 2013
Michael Schaffer
The Most Annoying Thing About Cellphones on Airplanes
It's not overhearing conversations. It's listening to people complain about overhearing conversations.
November 1, 2013
Marc Tracy
Linguist Says You Can Use ‘Like’ More. He’s, Like, Wrong.
October 22, 2013
David Marsh
The Golden Age of Grammar Is a Myth
October 21, 2013
Ryan Kearney
The "Surge" Surge Must Be Stopped
October 15, 2013
Jennifer Kirby, Kathryn Olson
The Government Shutdown From A to Z: A Handy, Half-Serious Glossary
October 8, 2013
Molly Redden
Activate Beast Mode
How to talk like a business-school bro
August 16, 2013
Judith Shulevitz
Don’t You Dare Say "Disruptive"
It's the most pernicious cliché of our time
August 9, 2013
John McWhorter
A Quixotic History of Doomed Efforts to Fix Spelling
August 1, 2013
Laura Bennett
This Computer Program Turns Famous Writers Into Anonymous Hacks
July 11, 2013
Walter Kirn
Born in the ***
July 2, 2013
John McWhorter
A New "C-Word"?
The ludicrous debate over the word "cracker"
June 12, 2013
Walter Kirn
Why Edward Snowden Wins on Twitter
May 23, 2013
John McWhorter
David Brooks' Favorite New Theory of Language Is Wrong
May 20, 2013
Tod Lindberg
Carney Barker
Jay Carney's rough week was a blessing to one man: his boss
May 17, 2013
Matthew J.X. Malady
Signature Required? No!
Technology has made signing our names a farce
May 17, 2013
Michael Kinsley
LGBT PC
Being against marriage equality doesn’t make you a monster
May 17, 2013
John McWhorter
Freedom From, Freedom To
Yes, you can end a sentence in a preposition
May 8, 2013
John McWhorter
Proof that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Had Assimilated? He Spoke Black
Black English, the most American part of our language

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