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All Sorts is an interesting web site that has a mission of collecting, well, all sorts of bizarre and clever collective nouns. Their entries come from both the Oxford English Dictionary and from user submissions. You could spend hours browsing … More »
Via Daily Writing Tips: The Global Language Monitor (GLM) is an Austin, Texas-based entity that documents, analyzes and tracks trends in language and publishes a list of the year’s most used English words, names, and phrases. According to GLM’s algorithm, … More »
I had to start and stop this clip exactly one hundred times so I could read all the definitions. Wow, am I that unhip? I guess so…
OK, he didn’t say babies, he said kittens. Last weekend I watched streaming video of The Amaz!ng Meeting (TAM) 7 from Las Vegas (awesome conference and awesome technology) and was fascinated by a paper give by Steve Cuno of the … More »
So…Mark Sanford. This isn’t a political blog, but we do read the news, and this particular scandal has now contributed a new euphemism to English – “hiking the Appalachian Trail”. Why Gov. Sanford thought this was a good excuse, I’ll … More »
I am a naming specialist, a linguist, and a lover of words in every sense. So I was tickled pink to see this recent collection of the 100 most beautiful words in English posted by AlphaDictionary. Now of course, each … More »
We’d like to introduce a new series that will run every Friday, entitled There’s a Name For It. We love language, and this series features words from various languages around the world that capture universal, but complicated, human emotions or … More »
The excellent folks at Daily Writing Tips have weighed in on the question that’s on everyone’s mind: Should you pronounce the “h” in “-wh-“ words like whistle, whiz, and overwhelm? DWT’s balanced response is very much in accord with my … More »
In today’s San Francisco Chronicle (by Patricia Yollin): Nzadi is one of the most obscure tongues in the world. That’s exactly why a UC Berkeley class has embraced it. “There’s nothing like the joy of discovering a language from scratch,” … More »