A Walk in the WoRds

One of my sons recently purchased comedian Demetri Martin's book, "This is a Book". As I was flipping through it, I noticed th...

New York City has used all-capital letters on its street signs for over a century but recently decided to change the signs to both upper and...

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...

This photo illustrates what has been dubbed in political circles (and written about on numerous language blogs including Language Log , Migh...

A previous post on this blog was about George Bernard Shaw's alternate spelling of the word ' fish' as ghoti . He supported usin...

The case of the camel is no mystery, it is actually just a writing style that uses a different variation of the standard upper and lower ca...

A while back I posted about the semiotic use of the number "3" for the letter "E" in the title of an album by T-Pain. T...

Apparently the state of Georgia is considering passing a tax that would charge gentlemen's club visitors an extra $5 fee at the door. Th...