Posted on 06/22/2019 at 04:00 PM by
Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Next time you hear someone dismiss a language debate with “oh, semantics,” consider showing them a recent ar...
Posted on 05/31/2019 at 10:00 AM by
Sadye Scott-Hainchek
The New York Times headline, which we wish we’d written on our own, was “at a loss for words.” The sto...
Posted on 05/30/2019 at 04:00 PM by
Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Grammar geeks and word nerds have new fuel for their righteous fires. Merriam-Webster Dictionary has stated, for the rec...
Posted on 05/05/2019 at 04:00 PM by
Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Once upon a time, a spoiler alert was truly something to heed, according to the Guardian. The word, after all, used to r...
Posted on 05/02/2019 at 02:00 PM by
Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Yowza — nearly 3,000 words have joined the Official Scrabble Words book. The book, released by Collins Dictionary...
Posted on 03/21/2019 at 10:00 AM by
Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Last year, the Oxford English Dictionary requested submissions of regional slang and dialect in its Words Where You Are...
Posted on 03/13/2019 at 06:00 PM by
Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Our earlier post had some animosity towards Alabama (or at least one town in particular), so we’ll even things out...
Posted on 02/20/2019 at 05:00 PM by
Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Every person, native or non-native, who has spoken or spelled in English has bemoaned what a strange language it is. We...
Posted on 02/17/2019 at 04:00 PM by
Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Language geeks, head over to the Atlas of Endangered Alphabets, stat! The website was created by a nonprofit called (uns...
Posted on 02/01/2019 at 12:00 PM by
Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Happy birthday — or launch day — to the Oxford English Dictionary! On this day in 1884, according to Literar...
