When Talking to Your Mother-in-Law Is a Minefield

Lexicon Valley Sept 15, 2020 9:30 AM

How We Settled on a Favored Name for the “Mysterious Pneumonia” Overtaking Our Lives

Heather Schwedel

Sept 14, 2020 12:04 PM

What Happens to Scots Wikipedia Now?

Stephen Harrison

Sept 09, 2020 2:42 PM

All 349 “Murmurs” in the Twilight Saga, Charted and Ranked

Rachelle Hampton

Sept 02, 2020 6:31 PM

The Incredible Story of the Traveling Creole

Lexicon Valley Sept 01, 2020 10:53 AM

How Will Language Change if Humans Travel the Stars?

Sam Kean

Aug 31, 2020 9:00 AM

Is There Any Evidence Black Americans Ever Used the “Generalized Am”?

Lexicon Valley Aug 18, 2020 7:28 AM

Indigenous Activists Are Reimagining Language Preservation Under Quarantine

Erica X Eisen

Aug 10, 2020 3:04 PM

What Does Capitalizing White Really Change About Reporting on Whiteness?

Julia Craven

Aug 05, 2020 11:23 AM

When Jews Adapted Spanish

Lexicon Valley Aug 04, 2020 9:37 AM

Does English Have a Future?

Lexicon Valley July 21, 2020 10:25 AM

It’s Perfectly Fine to Call It “Defunding” the Police

John H. McWhorter

July 18, 2020 1:31 PM

Will Merriam-Webster’s Coming Redefinition of “Racism” Revolutionize Discrimination Law?

Elias Leake Quinn

July 15, 2020 3:37 PM

The Karen Has Always Been With Us. This Is How She Found Her Name.

Decoder Ring July 13, 2020 11:59 AM

Big Scrabble’s Decision to Eliminate Offensive Words Has Infuriated Players Like Never Before

Stefan Fatsis

July 10, 2020 6:37 PM

Defund Karen: On the Insults and Acronyms of America’s Racial Reckoning

Lexicon Valley July 07, 2020 10:19 AM

Beyond the Five W’s

Lexicon Valley June 23, 2020 10:11 AM

How Children Learn Languages

Lexicon Valley June 09, 2020 9:33 AM

The American Struggle to Appropriately Appreciate Public Service

Gabriel Redel-Traub

June 01, 2020 11:00 AM

The New AP Stylebook Gets Technical. Really Technical.

Josephine Wolff

May 28, 2020 8:00 AM