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2012

Interview at Copyediting newsletteroriginal ↗
27 Nov 2012
Howling ambiguitiesoriginal ↗
25 Nov 2012
Bookmash: Don’t Sleeporiginal ↗
23 Nov 2012
Google’s Ngram Viewer and wild treacleoriginal ↗
21 Nov 2012
A comma, which muddles meaningoriginal ↗
19 Nov 2012
Link love: language (48)original ↗
15 Nov 2012
Book review: ‘The Horologicon’ by Mark Forsythoriginal ↗
14 Nov 2012
Fargo accent and dialect notesoriginal ↗
12 Nov 2012
Making a hames of itoriginal ↗
7 Nov 2012
Jim’s body Englishoriginal ↗
1 Nov 2012
Ancient people names in Irelandoriginal ↗
30 Oct 2012
Crowd-sourced dictionaries and rare portmanteausoriginal ↗
25 Oct 2012
Would of, could of, might of, must oforiginal ↗
23 Oct 2012
Scott Kim’s symmetrical alphabetoriginal ↗
18 Oct 2012
Link love: language (47)original ↗
17 Oct 2012
Conversational turns and silencesoriginal ↗
11 Oct 2012
Grammar and style in recent readingoriginal ↗
4 Oct 2012
Anti-anti-Americanismismoriginal ↗
27 Sept 2012
Irregular verbs, dialects, and sockpuppetsoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2012
Mysteries of Vernacular: animated etymologyoriginal ↗
19 Sept 2012
Book review: Punctuation..?original ↗
18 Sept 2012
The meanings and origins of ‘feck’original ↗
12 Sept 2012
Link love: language (46)original ↗
9 Sept 2012
BBC crash blossom: Girl murders car?original ↗
6 Sept 2012
To infinitely split with senseoriginal ↗
29 Aug 2012
Why people misspell ‘just deserts’original ↗
26 Aug 2012
Lifting the sneckoriginal ↗
22 Aug 2012
Those groovy semicolonsoriginal ↗
20 Aug 2012
From humblebrag to underbragoriginal ↗
16 Aug 2012
Link love: language (45)original ↗
15 Aug 2012
Children’s awareness of irregular verbsoriginal ↗
13 Aug 2012
James Thurber on writing and rewritingoriginal ↗
10 Aug 2012
Contrastive focus reduplication: It’s reduplication, but it’s not *reduplication* reduplicationoriginal ↗
7 Aug 2012
Oke is OKoriginal ↗
31 Jul 2012
I’ma share some Walter Mosley and William Labovoriginal ↗
27 Jul 2012
Bookmash 16: Virtual light in the heart of the seaoriginal ↗
23 Jul 2012
On linguistic pruning and peevingoriginal ↗
20 Jul 2012
How awkwardly to avoid split infinitivesoriginal ↗
11 Jul 2012
Link love: language (44)original ↗
9 Jul 2012
The Mind is a Metaphor is a databaseoriginal ↗
2 Jul 2012
‘Smuggle plot tomatoes’ and other distant compoundsoriginal ↗
27 Jun 2012
Comma clusters and texting styleoriginal ↗
25 Jun 2012
Eva Hoffman: ‘somewhere between tongue and mind’original ↗
21 Jun 2012
Is you is or is you ain’t bad grammar?original ↗
19 Jun 2012
James Joyce: ‘We must write dangerously’original ↗
16 Jun 2012
Two linguistic questionsoriginal ↗
14 Jun 2012
Link love: language (43)original ↗
10 Jun 2012
A short note on long wordsoriginal ↗
7 Jun 2012
How to avoid confusing ‘pore’ and ‘pour’original ↗
5 Jun 2012
Reflecting on the reflexive pronoun ‘themself’original ↗
31 May 2012
Real estate lingo, and the sorriest apologiesoriginal ↗
28 May 2012
Explaining ‘fell’ in one fell swooporiginal ↗
24 May 2012
Two poems, two pollsoriginal ↗
22 May 2012
The interstellar etymology of ‘mazel tov’original ↗
21 May 2012
Annals of non-restrictive ‘that’original ↗
17 May 2012
Mar dhea, moryah — a sceptical Irish interjectionoriginal ↗
14 May 2012
‘Scary quotes’original ↗
9 May 2012
Most animals bark a littleoriginal ↗
7 May 2012
Link love: language (42)original ↗
3 May 2012
As good (as) or better than faulty parallelismoriginal ↗
1 May 2012
Starved with the cold, and linguistic inflationoriginal ↗
30 Apr 2012
The problem with banning wordsoriginal ↗
26 Apr 2012
Bookmash: Forest of symbolsoriginal ↗
24 Apr 2012
Audio lingooriginal ↗
19 Apr 2012
Language play in ‘Jude in London’original ↗
17 Apr 2012
Sparsed and cahootedoriginal ↗
13 Apr 2012
“Who to follow” is grammatically fineoriginal ↗
5 Apr 2012
Notes on standard English and ‘bad grammar’original ↗
4 Apr 2012
Ragbag of reduplication and ráiméisoriginal ↗
2 Apr 2012
Link love: language (41)original ↗
29 Mar 2012
A radical awareness of language’s mutabilityoriginal ↗
28 Mar 2012
Squishy vs. squidgyoriginal ↗
23 Mar 2012
Ozwords, Lexico Loco, and A World of Englishesoriginal ↗
21 Mar 2012
‘Nice’ in Northanger Abbeyoriginal ↗
9 Mar 2012
Grammar haiku and a whispering shelloriginal ↗
8 Mar 2012
Slang ‘helmer’ and the fun of new wordsoriginal ↗
6 Mar 2012
Bookmash: Time, love and summeroriginal ↗
4 Mar 2012
The normality of conversation on Twitteroriginal ↗
27 Feb 2012
Link love: language (40)original ↗
22 Feb 2012
Redundancy in the prime of ‘like’original ↗
18 Feb 2012
Where’s the grammar in these “common grammar mistakes”?original ↗
16 Feb 2012
Bauer’s Family Tree of Printing Typesoriginal ↗
14 Feb 2012
Borges on poetic inspirationoriginal ↗
10 Feb 2012
A grisly crash blossomoriginal ↗
8 Feb 2012
You might could dig these multiple modalsoriginal ↗
6 Feb 2012
The Glottal Stop Hoteloriginal ↗
4 Feb 2012
Inkhorns in the past, apostrophes in the futureoriginal ↗
2 Feb 2012
Come here till I tell you about ‘till’ in Irelandoriginal ↗
30 Jan 2012
Link love: language (39)original ↗
27 Jan 2012
Every word a provocative hullabaloooriginal ↗
25 Jan 2012
Corpus fu, mismarriedly, and other neologismsoriginal ↗
24 Jan 2012
‘Ledgebag’ is totes amazeoriginal ↗
19 Jan 2012
John Searle on language, literacy, and the mindoriginal ↗
17 Jan 2012
Waterstones’ apostrophe: a victim of rebrandingoriginal ↗
12 Jan 2012
Bookmash: Ambient gesturesoriginal ↗
11 Jan 2012
Preoccupied by plain languageoriginal ↗
10 Jan 2012
C. S. Lewis, language botanistoriginal ↗
5 Jan 2012
The mamas & the papas in babies’ babblingoriginal ↗
2 Jan 2012

2011

Link love: language (38)original ↗
29 Dec 2011
Jumbling, tumblingoriginal ↗
23 Dec 2011
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