Gretchen McCulloch

The Real Communication Void Emoji Filled

Gretchen McCulloch

July 24, 2019 5:45 AM

Is a Hashtag a Word? The Case of #BlackLivesMatter.

Jan 29, 2015 2:19 PM

Why We Should Declare an Emoticon of the Year

Jan 07, 2015 11:56 AM

Did You Miss Any Great Language Writing This Year? Top Lexicon Valley Posts of 2014.

Dec 30, 2014 11:55 AM

Why Do Hawaiians Say “Mele Kalikimaka” on Christmas?

Dec 04, 2014 1:49 PM

What’s the Word for Turkey in Turkish?

Nov 25, 2014 12:57 PM

Five Poems With Fantastic Wordplay

Nov 10, 2014 2:15 PM

A Better-Phrased Sentence Could Have Saved This Woman “From Her Marriage to Her Dog”

Nov 06, 2014 1:26 PM

What Do You Call the Night Before Halloween?

Oct 28, 2014 1:38 PM

4 Features From Other Languages That We Wish English Had

Oct 24, 2014 11:09 AM

A Course on Understanding People in Ipswich: Is the Course in Ipswich, or the People?

Oct 16, 2014 1:20 PM

They Helped the Pilgrims—and Regretted It. How the Wampanoag Brought Their Language Back.

Oct 13, 2014 2:37 PM

What Can Linguistics Tell Us About Writing Better? An Interview with Steven Pinker.

Sept 30, 2014 1:23 PM

Free “Tudoring” and a Moist Owlet: The 5 Different T Sounds in English

Sept 29, 2014 1:34 PM

Why Do Pirates Talk Like That?

Sept 19, 2014 11:32 AM

Why Does English Use “Iambic Pentameter” and Other Greek Poetic Terms?

Sept 15, 2014 1:34 PM

Ikea’s “Bookbook,’ Soy Milk vs. Milk-Milk, and Like-Liking. What’s Going On?

Sept 10, 2014 1:13 PM

How Do You Rhyme in a Sign Language?

Sept 05, 2014 11:35 AM

7 Ways to Fake-Pronounce Any Foreign Language

Sept 02, 2014 10:39 AM

Do All Languages Derive from a Single Common Ancestor?

Aug 21, 2014 1:11 PM