A Walk in the WoRds

Am I the only one who has a problem with the name of Subway's new menu item? There are just too many options for the phonetic rea...

The results of the poll from the post, The Sound and the Shapey  - The blue shape is a kiki and the green shape is a bouba. 91.8% ...

A variation of last week's post  regarding the mapping between speech sounds and the visual shape of objects. One of the above sha...

The following shapes were used in a well-known psychological experiment regarding the mapping between speech sounds and the visual shape of ...

Thankfully, I did not have to "bang a left" while visiting Boston this past week; I left all the driving to the expertise of the ...

I noticed these two images going around as "shares" on Facebook today. Of course it had to be the Texas image that ...

The movie, the story it told, and the music were all incredible. I only wish I had learned of Rodríguez before he played at a local venue ...

Where do phonetics, numbers and memory meet? The answer to the question from last week's post  Happy Sinuous Idiom - A New Year's ...

Happy Science Wisdom  Happy Ions Teem  Happy Knees Esteem  Happy Noisy Dime  Happy Nice Theme Where do phonetics, numbers an...

I'm not really in the mood for a Samuel Smith's, so... make it a Wig Top IA. As explained at Wikipedia - India Pale ...

Today at the grocery store I came across a brand of bread of which I had never before seen or heard. My first thought upon seeing the ...

He has been the host of a popular television game show since 1984 and is said to be  contemplating retirement  in the next two years. ...

As part of a vodka promotion, these coozies were given out at one of our local watering holes last week. Something about the rhymi...

I love these post-it notes that came with a book I ordered. Too bad they don't sell them; I would order a carton. And check out these fu...

'yes-no question' One which has a simple positive or negative answer. CF . closed interrogative, polar interrogative. yod The soun...

Cartoon by Chris Yoder .

Umgangssprache German for 'colloquial language'. 'unfilled pause' An interval of silence in speech: i.e. a pause not '...

schwa The mid-central vowel of e.g. the second syllable of matter: in phonetic notation [ ə ] ([matə ]) . Also spelled 'shwa'. sel...

Nuckin Futs Language Log recently brought to my attention a newly trademarked (and Spoonerism ized ?) Australian snack food called Nuckin ...

/hæpi: nu:w jɪər/ Hope you all enjoyed your holidays.