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2013

The slangy business of bird-doggingoriginal ↗
22 Aug 2013
Ms., Mrs., and Missing optionsoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2013
On caring less, and a new abbreviation (Ћ)original ↗
15 Aug 2013
Raymond Chandler on storytelling and styleoriginal ↗
4 Aug 2013
The referee itselforiginal ↗
3 Aug 2013
Two profane, two obsceneoriginal ↗
3 Aug 2013
And I’m like, Quotative ‘like’ isn’t just for quotingoriginal ↗
1 Aug 2013
Punctuation support grouporiginal ↗
31 Jul 2013
Link love: language (56)original ↗
30 Jul 2013
Yoke, thingamajig, doodad, and oojamaflip: meet the placeholdersoriginal ↗
26 Jul 2013
More clichéd than previously thoughtoriginal ↗
24 Jul 2013
Pronouns, humans, and dormiceoriginal ↗
23 Jul 2013
Crooks’ names from Dashiell Hammettoriginal ↗
21 Jul 2013
Climbing Croagh Patrick, the holy mountain of Mayooriginal ↗
19 Jul 2013
Bulling “ar buile” in Irish Englishoriginal ↗
16 Jul 2013
Sylvia Plath on Finnegans Wakeoriginal ↗
12 Jul 2013
Fossil words, usage collisions, and Latin pluralsoriginal ↗
10 Jul 2013
Link love: language (55)original ↗
4 Jul 2013
Folk etymology: from hiccup to hiccoughoriginal ↗
2 Jul 2013
What’s the difference between envy and jealousy?original ↗
25 Jun 2013
Bookmash no. 21: Not Scaredoriginal ↗
21 Jun 2013
Hunting the origins of “tantivy”original ↗
18 Jun 2013
Writing tips from Teilhard de Chardinoriginal ↗
17 Jun 2013
Belief systems, which erode clarityoriginal ↗
11 Jun 2013
Book review: Netymology: From Apps to Zombies, by Tom Chatfieldoriginal ↗
7 Jun 2013
A hovering dangling modifieroriginal ↗
6 Jun 2013
Link love: language (54)original ↗
5 Jun 2013
The creole continuumoriginal ↗
4 Jun 2013
St. George? Total legend.original ↗
31 May 2013
Living with Herds: a vocalisation dictionaryoriginal ↗
30 May 2013
Grammatic innovation, dramatic pronunciationoriginal ↗
29 May 2013
A reactive defence of ‘proactive’original ↗
27 May 2013
You can pronounce “GIF” any way you likeoriginal ↗
24 May 2013
Bab.la top language loversoriginal ↗
23 May 2013
I didn’t cycle up the Liffey on a bicycleoriginal ↗
22 May 2013
The sense of things improperoriginal ↗
20 May 2013
Mick Jagger, amateur linguistoriginal ↗
16 May 2013
Bookmash: Cat and Mouse Semanticsoriginal ↗
14 May 2013
New language blog: Caxtonoriginal ↗
10 May 2013
Story Bud? Funding the feature filmoriginal ↗
8 May 2013
Link love: language (53)original ↗
7 May 2013
Reductio ad Godwinumoriginal ↗
7 May 2013
The trouble with ‘fulsome’original ↗
4 May 2013
Inspiring etymology, and ‘stakeholder’original ↗
1 May 2013
“Fortune is bald behind”original ↗
28 Apr 2013
Texting is an expansion of our linguistic repertoireoriginal ↗
23 Apr 2013
Living under a henoriginal ↗
22 Apr 2013
Book review: Sick English, by Janet Byron Andersonoriginal ↗
18 Apr 2013
Alexander Ellis on the chameleon nature of languageoriginal ↗
17 Apr 2013
Sigh languageoriginal ↗
15 Apr 2013
Dialect query: The head of/on/to himoriginal ↗
11 Apr 2013
Touchous about “whom”original ↗
9 Apr 2013
“Some superb entropy” in the language of spamoriginal ↗
6 Apr 2013
A prison punoriginal ↗
4 Apr 2013
Bang, pling, boing, shriek, gasper, screamer, Christer! And other exclamation mark aliasesoriginal ↗
28 Mar 2013
Book review: The Old Editor Says, by John McIntyreoriginal ↗
26 Mar 2013
Link love: language (52)original ↗
25 Mar 2013
Unrhetorical questionoriginal ↗
23 Mar 2013
I guess that’s why they call ‘thats’ the ‘whose’original ↗
20 Mar 2013
The Power of Babel: Dialects are all there isoriginal ↗
19 Mar 2013
A kempt back-formationoriginal ↗
14 Mar 2013
Centring around phonetic alphabetsoriginal ↗
11 Mar 2013
The celestial aspirate of Mister Lemoriginal ↗
8 Mar 2013
Bookmash: Quench the lamporiginal ↗
7 Mar 2013
The dramatic grammatic evolution of “LOL”original ↗
5 Mar 2013
Timber, temples, and “ligging” a hedgeoriginal ↗
3 Mar 2013
Story Bud? A video of Dublin phrases, with notesoriginal ↗
27 Feb 2013
Words changing colour like crabsoriginal ↗
25 Feb 2013
Link love: language (51)original ↗
21 Feb 2013
Peppercorn rentoriginal ↗
19 Feb 2013
Words are tasty!original ↗
18 Feb 2013
There’s nowt wrong with children’s dialectsoriginal ↗
14 Feb 2013
Twitter tips for business writingoriginal ↗
13 Feb 2013
Irish Folk Furniture, a stop-motion documentaryoriginal ↗
12 Feb 2013
Book review: Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch: Let Verbs Power Your Writingoriginal ↗
10 Feb 2013
All the words went down the wiresoriginal ↗
8 Feb 2013
Folktale diffusion and ethnolinguistic variationoriginal ↗
6 Feb 2013
Tongue-tied, by Li-Chin Linoriginal ↗
5 Feb 2013
Zombie nouns, words of the year, and serendipityoriginal ↗
4 Feb 2013
Singular they, you, and a ‘senseless way of speaking’original ↗
29 Jan 2013
Foclóir: A new English–Irish dictionaryoriginal ↗
23 Jan 2013
Link love: language (50)original ↗
22 Jan 2013
A funny kind’ve spellingoriginal ↗
21 Jan 2013
Usage Peeve Bingooriginal ↗
16 Jan 2013
Ending a sentence with 15+ prepositionsoriginal ↗
14 Jan 2013
Bookmash: The Holy Doororiginal ↗
10 Jan 2013
Who cares about English?original ↗
8 Jan 2013
ETAOIN SRHLDCU, or: What are the most common words and letters in English?original ↗
7 Jan 2013
Comma with restrictive ‘which’original ↗
5 Jan 2013
STRAC, a military acronym — and backronymoriginal ↗
3 Jan 2013
Fiscal metaphors and everyday idiomsoriginal ↗
1 Jan 2013

2012

Winter sunset and a seasonal noteoriginal ↗
21 Dec 2012
The invented languages of Ithkuil and Blissymbolsoriginal ↗
20 Dec 2012
Who’s confused by whose confusion?original ↗
17 Dec 2012
How do you pronounce GIF? Does it matter?original ↗
12 Dec 2012
Link love: language (49)original ↗
10 Dec 2012
Non-cognate interlexical homographs text voteoriginal ↗
6 Dec 2012
Who (be) takin’ it to the manoriginal ↗
3 Dec 2012
Babel – a new language magazineoriginal ↗
28 Nov 2012
Whilst, amongst, amidst — old-fashioned or normal?original ↗
28 Nov 2012
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