It’s time to look at the words that made the news last year.
Forget twerking, and stop taking selfies, because this year’s winner was truly momentous.
There’s even someone special to take us through it: Ben Zimmer of the American …
Author: Daniel Midgley (page 27 of 41)
Language research is turning up some surprising things about how language and gender interact.
It appears that our brains process language differently with male or female speakers. But what about online text? Can you tell whether someone is male or …
Esperanto was designed to be simple to learn, and to unite the world.
It has a lot of competition from other artificial languages, but it still tops them all. What is Esperanto like? Will it take over the world, or …
What’s the most common word in the world?
A research team finds that huh? is shared by languages around the globe. But is it really a word? What are words like?
We’re also talking to Simon Tam of the Slants, …
Can offensive terms be reclaimed by the people they’ve been applied to? Or are some words best left alone?
In a related issue, sports teams are facing pressure to change their racially-charged names. Should they?
Linguist Daniel Midgley looks at …
Yes and no.
You use these words all the time, but how often do you think about them? They’re not nouns, they’re not verbs, so what are they? Why do we nod our heads yes and shake our heads …
Are you concerned about encroaching Americanism?
Do you worry that words like ketchup and zee will destroy the Australian way of life?
Well, don’t worry; language change works both ways. Americans are picking up words and phrases from Australia. But …
Grammar is in the news this week, as Sufjan Stevens takes Miley Cyrus to task on her language usage.
And a school in the UK is banning slang.
What motivates these grammar grouches? And are their criticisms spot on, or …
Should your language be gender-neutral?
In English, there’s he and there’s she, but if you don’t want to specify, you may be surprised by the choices we have. Which are the most popular? And what’s in the future for …
Before English was cool, there was Proto-Indo-European.
It’s the language that would turn into Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, and more. And it’s so old that it has no written records. So how do we know what it was like? And how …
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