The Oxford English Dictionary has added 900 new words, including Internet-inspired abbreviations like LOL, OMG, and BFF.
Will this cause the demise of society and the collapse of IQ scores globally?
Linguist Daniel Midgley is here to hose down the …
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Letters are letters, but the Internet gives them a new existence.
Linguist Daniel Midgley looks at what’s happening to the e in email, examines the i in your iPad, and puts the x in sex. All on this …
When MIT scientist Deb Roy’s first child was born, he did what any proud father would do: he rigged his house up with cameras and microphones to capture every phase of his child’s language development.
What are we learning about …
New research reveals that speaking a second language doesn’t just make you more interesting — it also holds off the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease.
How does it work? And which second language is right for you?
Linguist Daniel Midgley is …
The King’s Speech has won the Oscar for Best Picture, and this has brought attention to the issue of speech disfluency.
What causes stammering, and how do people learn to manage it? And how affected was the King’s speech, anyway?…
It’s one of the most commonly recognised English words in the world.
You probably use it scores of times a day. But how much do you know about okay?
Its origins are obscure, but here to talk us through …
Opposition leader Tony Abbott copped some flak when he referred to a soldier’s death in Afghanistan using a certain well-known philosophical homily: “Shit happens.”
How did this phrase enter the lexicon, and what impact has it had?
It’s all happening …
The search engine giants are in the news.
Google is alleging that Microsoft’s Bing is copying its results. How do they know? And how does a search engine work anyway?
Linguist Daniel Midgley makes sense of the technology on this …
Chaser, a border collie, can recognise the names of over 1,000 objects, and her owner claims she can carry out commands involving verbs and nouns combined.
Is this evidence that animals can use language-like skills?
Linguist Daniel Midgley investigates on …
CW: homophobic slur
This month, Canadian radio banned the Dire Straits song ‘Money for Nothing’ over an anti-gay slur in its lyrics.
Has the f-slur now become as unacceptable as other swear words? And how has the word changed since …
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