A Walk in the WoRds

Geoffrey Pullum has an excellent post about the International Phonetic Alphabet at Lingua Franca today. You can read it at this link . Fol...

I recently noticed a bumper sticker on a car that read (rebəl). My first thought was that the car must belong to a rebel phonetician. This p...

Following is a rebus-like variation of a well-known idiom. Can you guess what it is? ull ou all the sos. Here is a pictographic hint. And...

The zdrankezd dhing habbenet earlier dotay. What, exactly, is wrong with this sentence? Here is a hint: It should read, "The strangest ...

While teaching my class last week I was looking for a better way to illustrate the difference between the "theta" and "eth...