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Business Jargon Like “Circle Back” Is Easy to Mock. But That Doesn’t Make It Garbage.
Mark Morgioni
Feb 20, 2020
5:37 PM
Verbs on the Move
John H. McWhorter
Jan 21, 2020
9:56 AM
Does Processes Rhyme With Knees?
John H. McWhorter
Jan 07, 2020
10:44 AM
A Bisl Yiddish
John H. McWhorter
Dec 24, 2019
10:18 AM
A Guide to Chile’s Revolutionary Social Media Slang
Margaret Tucker
Dec 17, 2019
7:30 AM
Private Parts
John H. McWhorter
Dec 10, 2019
10:45 AM
The Talented Ms. Highsmith
Studio 360
Dec 05, 2019
5:00 PM
We Need to Be More Specific About Vaping. Enter: “Teen Vaping,” “Virgin Vaping,” “Dark Vaping.”
Shannon Palus
Dec 05, 2019
5:50 AM
A Linguist on What Baby Yoda’s First Words Might Be
Lisa Davidson
Dec 04, 2019
2:58 PM
Elon Musk Says “Pedo Guy” Was a Common Insult in His Youth. We Checked With 17 of His Schoolmates.
Aaron Mak
Dec 04, 2019
1:53 PM
“History Is Written by the Victors” Was Not Written by the Victors
Matthew Phelan
Nov 26, 2019
7:19 PM
The Soft Power of Like
John H. McWhorter
Nov 26, 2019
3:04 PM
Can That Dog on Instagram Really “Talk”?
Jane C. Hu
Nov 25, 2019
7:30 AM
Men, Women, and Children
John H. McWhorter
Nov 12, 2019
3:35 PM
Conlangers Invent Languages for Science, Pleasure—and the Occasional Hoax
Laura Spinney
Oct 30, 2019
7:30 AM
English Is Teeming With Zombie Elements
John H. McWhorter
Oct 29, 2019
11:37 AM
Why Haven’t We Found a Better Name for Electroconvulsive Therapy?
Shannon Palus
Oct 21, 2019
5:45 AM
Where Does the Word Lunch Come From?
John H. McWhorter
Oct 16, 2019
2:25 PM
How to Think Like a Linguist
John H. McWhorter
Oct 01, 2019
10:40 AM
How “Rest in Power” Went From Radical Eulogy to Kitschy Twitter Meme
Rachelle Hampton
Sept 30, 2019
5:45 AM
