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Occupying Word Street October 14, 2011 By Ben Zimmer The public protest over economic inequalities known as "Occupy Wall Street...

Airlinese May 16th 2011, 16:57 by R.L.G. | AIR TRAVEL HELL IT’S boring to say that airline travel has become a nightmare. From shedding bel...

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[...] Lots of businesses create deliberately deviant spellings to offer "stand out quality". Take Kwiksave , Kwikfit , Krispy Kr...

Tweets, Tweeps and Twerps Thursday, September 08, 2011   Any new technology that is used for communication is bound to lead to some concern ...

Americanisms: 50 of your most noted examples 20 July 2011 Last updated at 01:30 GMT  | Comments (1295) The Magazine's recent piece on ...

[...]  It's possible that all this like-ing is a nervous habit that has simultaneously inflicted an entire generation of women, but I...

By Barbara Gunn Special to the Oak Ridger Posted Jun 22, 2011 @ 07:24 PM Is English, as we know it, dead?     Yes, according to Washing...

Political Correctness: theories and debates Thursday, June 23, 2011   I wouldn't normally copy a comment from another post over as a new...

Schmick new words added to Oxford Dictionaries Online 1 June 2011 We’ve managed to spare a few femtoseconds in our busy schedule to add s...

From BOLO to ZOMG Monday, June 06, 2011   The latest list of new additions to Oxford Dictionaries Online is a veritable smorgasbord of delig...

Strictly English by Simon Heffer: Part Three In the third of four extracts from his book instructing us on correct written English, Simon He...

Strictly English: Part one The first of four exclusive extracts from ‘Strictly English: the Correct Way to Write... and Why It Matters’ poin...

Strictly English: Part Two In the second of four extracts from his book instructing us on the correct way to write English, Simon Heffer tak...

In 1985 Norman Tebbit suggested in all seriousness that the abandonment of traditional grammar-teaching in schools had contributed to the br...

"A language is a transcript of history, not an immutable edifice." - Henry Hitchings [ The Language Wars: A History of Proper Engl...

David Mitchell talks about the modern use of the word 'lol'. "I understand 'lol' to be, 'I acknowledge that you h...

Kevin Myers: Omigod, this linguistic gibberish is, like, so gross By Kevin Myers Friday June 03 2011 There was a single, telling moment whe...

Lane Greene of The Economist Johnson Blog, provides a mini lecture into how language influences thought. He shows some psychological exper...

Many people have argued that the current generation (Gen Y) is ruining and degrading the English Language with texting and e-speak which dev...

A foolish consistency Posted by Stan Carey on September 28, 2011 No doubt you’re familiar with the following line from Ralph Waldo Emer...

Things to note: Use of exclamation mark --> distinction between formal/informal more blurred Increased frequency of "..." in ...