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2026

40-odd metaphors from Lorrie Moore original ↗

26 Sept 2026

30-odd metaphors from Ross Macdonald original ↗

6 Aug 2026

Book spine poem: The Birds’ Disaffection original ↗

19 Jun 2026

Raymond Chandler’s cannibalized stories original ↗

20 Apr 2026

What kind of profanity is this?original ↗

6 Apr 2026

Eavan Boland and the emergence of a poetic self original ↗

29 Mar 2026

Don’t have a menty b about this bloggy p original ↗

10 Feb 2026

Sipping a word like brandy original ↗

2 Feb 2026

2025

A list of animals who original ↗

15 Dec 2025

to Agatha Christie (v.tr.)original ↗

11 Oct 2025

Link love: language (80)original ↗

10 Jul 2025

Book spine poem #52: Swearing Is Good for You original ↗

16 Jun 2025

The trouble with dangling modifiers original ↗

6 May 2025

Book review: ‘New Horizons in Prescriptivism Research’ (2024)original ↗

24 Apr 2025

Werner Herzog on the OED: ‘the book of books’original ↗

5 Mar 2025

Werner Herzog on his voice and its mimics original ↗

25 Feb 2025

The Strunk cost fallacy original ↗

22 Jan 2025

2024

When books make you sing: a record of accidental song lyrics original ↗

22 Dec 2024

‘How to see one’s own world’: Ursula K. Le Guin on writing style original ↗

16 Oct 2024

Book spine poem: Sleep the Big Sleep original ↗

30 Sept 2024

Birth of the coolth original ↗

16 Aug 2024

Link love: language (79)original ↗

1 Jun 2024

Banjaxed and bockety words in Ireland original ↗

15 Mar 2024

The thingliness of Lorrie Moore’s words original ↗

9 Jan 2024

2023

Book spine poem: Wintering original ↗

8 Dec 2023

The oblique etymology of ‘catty-corner’original ↗

8 Nov 2023

Buster Keaton silently writing silent film original ↗

18 Oct 2023

Has ‘greenlit’ been greenlighted?original ↗

15 Aug 2023

Link love: language (78)original ↗

26 Jul 2023

How Gaia theory got its name original ↗

5 Jun 2023

Mom vs mam, and Americanisms in Irish English original ↗

21 May 2023

Jack Gladney’s German lessons original ↗

3 May 2023

Book spine poem: Memory original ↗

6 Apr 2023

Don’t never tell nobody not to use no double negatives original ↗

27 Feb 2023

Six more videos about language original ↗

25 Jan 2023

New year’s resolutions for editors and proofreaders original ↗

12 Jan 2023

2022

10 more words from Irish English dialect original ↗

19 Dec 2022

Swearing like a trooper, a trucker, a sailor and . . . a starling?original ↗

13 Dec 2022

Blogging, tweeting, and . . . tooting on Mastodon?original ↗

30 Nov 2022

Book spine poem: Return from the Stars original ↗

21 Nov 2022

The electrifying moment: Peter Temple on writing original ↗

31 Oct 2022

A visit to the Burren original ↗

19 Oct 2022

Asperging words original ↗

3 Oct 2022

Continual vs continuous – what’s the difference?original ↗

15 Sept 2022

Game of mondegreens original ↗

5 Sept 2022

Six short videos about language original ↗

18 Aug 2022

Irish words in English and the OED original ↗

11 Aug 2022

Link love: language (77)original ↗

26 Jul 2022

How to accept language change, with David Cronenberg original ↗

24 Jun 2022

Unlikely syntax will lead to clarity original ↗

1 Jun 2022

One did not talk nonsense to horses: Notes on Molly Keane by her daughter Sally Phipps original ↗

27 May 2022

Wordable awareness original ↗

7 Apr 2022

We ourself can use this pronoun original ↗

25 Mar 2022

Joyce County by Ray Burke original ↗

20 Feb 2022

David Cronenberg on inventing a language original ↗

29 Jan 2022

2021

Book spine poem: Hidden Symptoms original ↗

19 Dec 2021

Book review: The Rise of English, by Rosemary Salomone original ↗

13 Dec 2021

Emoji reaction cards original ↗

24 Nov 2021

How well read should editors be?original ↗

13 Oct 2021

Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction original ↗

21 Sept 2021

Book review: Memory Speaks: On Losing and Reclaiming Language and Self, by Julie Sedivy original ↗

7 Sept 2021

The strange absence of ‘ambiguate’original ↗

22 Aug 2021

Book spine poem: Touching the Precipice original ↗

9 Aug 2021

Four types of language prescriptivism original ↗

25 Jul 2021

Words in your personal dictionary original ↗

30 Jun 2021

Brits doing Baltimore accents in The Wire original ↗

9 Jun 2021

Link love: language (76)original ↗

13 May 2021

Spey the planets original ↗

22 Apr 2021

Gently enchanted original ↗

10 Apr 2021

Seven videos about language original ↗

5 Feb 2021

Awkness: an old word made new again original ↗

28 Jan 2021

Incentivized and mitigated original ↗

7 Jan 2021

2020

Wasn’t It Herself Told Me?original ↗

15 Dec 2020

Six new language podcasts original ↗

6 Dec 2020

Irish English dialect in The Stinging Fly original ↗

23 Nov 2020

Book spine poem: Listening to the Wind original ↗

17 Nov 2020

Book review: A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order, by Judith Flanders original ↗

10 Nov 2020

Oochy woochy coochy coo? Consult linguistics, says Captain Kirk original ↗

16 Oct 2020

Peeking, peeving, and grubbing around original ↗

6 Oct 2020

Headline trials halted original ↗

16 Sept 2020

Not only but also Naipaul original ↗

10 Sept 2020

Link love: language (75)original ↗

28 Aug 2020

The Trouble with Harry’s grammar original ↗

21 Aug 2020

Geoff Lindsey: putting the fun in phonetics original ↗

16 Aug 2020

Secrets and private languages original ↗

28 Jul 2020

Book review: Cauld Blasts and Clishmaclavers, by Robin A. Crawford original ↗

21 Jul 2020

Dialect, dinkum, and dude original ↗

19 Jul 2020

The OED Text Visualizer original ↗

27 Jun 2020

Dictionary of Affixes original ↗

12 Jun 2020

That puzzling omission original ↗

31 May 2020

Consumed by Lydia Davis’s short stories original ↗

11 May 2020

Cúirt book festival goes online original ↗

1 May 2020

Eggcorns, complements, and multiple modals original ↗

21 Apr 2020

The impassable barrier of language original ↗

10 Apr 2020

Book spine poem: All the Pieces Matter original ↗

1 Apr 2020

Link love: language (74)original ↗

23 Mar 2020

Literal decimation original ↗

20 Mar 2020

A word so dreadful and rotten original ↗

16 Feb 2020

Are you codding me with all this stravaging?original ↗

29 Jan 2020

Vocative commas, -ise/-ize, and the -fishing libfix original ↗

16 Jan 2020