July 10, 2025
Before they gather any more digital dust, here are a few dozen links on a linguistic theme – etymology, grammar, slang, dialect, gesture, writing, spelling, animal communication, etc. – for your reading and listening pleasure.
Ope.
On slop.
Holy mackerel!
On balk and baulk.
Whence the backslash?
The grammar of “was trulyn’t”.
On deep reading vs “digital orality”.
Janet Malcolm vs English as she is spoke.
Pronoun research: an annotated bibliography.
What does it mean to live without handwriting?
Hallucinating Parrots, a new blog on the linguistics of AI.
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June 1, 2024
A selection of topical language-related links for your reading (or listening) pleasure. I have cameos in a couple of them:
I am not a typo.
Linguistic capture errors.
How robins got their name.
The endangered-language crisis.
The ritual of rearranging your books.
The strange short history of literary fiction.
The Makers of the Oxford English Dictionary.
New climate- and environment-related terms in BSL.
The auditory aesthetics of constructed languages.
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July 26, 2023
A round-up of linguistic items – essays, news, blog posts, papers, and podcasts on language – for your enjoyment and diversion:
Learning Na’vi.
On plurals of hapax.
Birds in English place names.
A selection of Irish-language slang.
Unpacking the Madeline Kripke Collection.
Neutralizing the accents of call centre workers.
The unexpected joys of Denglisch and Berlinglish.
History of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (podcast, 30 min.).
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July 26, 2022
Links, links, dozens of links! About language, linguistics, literature, and wordy stuff. Most are for reading, some (🎙) for listening.
Literature clock.
How we read emoji.
The language of the hand.
Linguistic relativity: a primer.
‘Saying the quiet part out loud’.
Is AI really mastering language?
Toward a theory of the New Weird.
The many 👉 functions of pointing 👈.
People still prefer to read physical books.
The changing politics of the Russian language.
Bat singing, babbling, and other vocalizations (🎙).
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May 13, 2021
A selection of language-themed links for your listening, viewing, and (mostly) reading pleasure.
How to say chorizo.
History of the asterisk.
Emoji time 🕙 is meaningless.
Bookselling in the End Times.
Neopronouns: a beginner’s guide.
New Covid-inspired German words.
The linguistic construction of terrorists.
Boyo-wulf: Beowulf translated into Cork slang.
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August 28, 2020
A fresh batch of linguistic items for your listening, viewing, and reading (lots of reading) pleasure. There are a few new language podcasts on the scene, but I’ll save those for a separate post.
On gibberish.
An auditory illusion.
The etymology of Triscuit.
On capitalizing Black and White.
Free ebook: Making Sense of “Bad English”.
A brief history of strange English street names.
The social value of linguistic creativity in a pandemic.
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March 23, 2020
Language links ahoy. If you’re looking to pass an hour or a few with some linguistic reading and audiovisual material, see what takes your fancy from the selection below (there are lots more after the fold). A couple of them are even about you know what.
Coronacoinages.
Forest dialect words.
Viral language and racism.
What counts as a slur, and why?
The Iron Curtain lives on as an isogloss.
Newly published: the Mother Jones style guide.
Science Diction: a new, bite-sized etymology podcast.
Irish English as the new EU working language [my annotations]
Emoji are to digital messages what gestures are to speech.
Solving the mystery of honeybee dance ‘dialects’.
When translation means editing the machines.
The newly launched Opie Archive.
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