A Walk in the WoRds

" I’ve been doing a lot of flying recently, which has me thinking about the term  flight attendant . It is undeniably clunky. And yet h...

“I’m so New Orleans, when I go out of town people ask me if I’m Canadian.” A joke, right? No, it seems that, contrary to all expectations...

There is an interesting post on Language Log about the following image.

[(N + H)ow + (T + W)hat](I know). How would you expand this expression? If you think like famous mathematician Norman Anning, you would r...

And I could not have produced a video that contains so many perfectly executed examples of the reasons why. Thanks to Superlinguo for bring...

I recently featured an image by artist Micah Lexier in a post and I have become so enamored with his work and the way he incorporates langu...

While I don’t agree with the sentiment in the chorus, I love that there is a song named for the Oxford comma. I must admit, the melody is pr...

As well as all sports fans and/or language enthusiasts, I present to you a compilation of language-related Super Bowl XLVI links. Macmillan ...

Please check out Lew and Paul's Linguistics and Sports page (link at right). The page includes items that will be of interest to both s...

Would you have a hard time distinguishing the source of a fast food chicken sandwich if a t-shirt company trademarked a phrase used on their...

The Age of Books Crated, carted, cast aside, printed works have liquefied in shocking bouts of bookicide. The printing press is done, perhap...

Dearest Readers, The bab.la language portal and Lexiophiles l anguage blog have run a Top 100 Language Blogs competition since 2008. The l...

Via: Voxy Blog

I recently read about a website called DifferenceBetween.net that promotes itself as the place to go to learn about the "difference be...

From Low Temperature Laboratory Helsinki University of Technology

WTF does ROTFL mean? I am truly not a prescriptivist, but I am still not LOL. This past December, Language - The Journal of the Linguistic ...

Because language is recursive, I thought it would be fun to post links to linkfests from some of my favorite linguistics blogs. Fritinancy -...

Having previously posted about words that the television show The Simpsons has contributed to our lexicon I was thrilled to see a link on ...

There was an interesting article published last fall in e! Science News that reviewed a study about how the brain recognises idioms. Researc...

"Language is wine upon the lips." -Virginia Woolf