Polari and the history of queer language: Learning to live out loud

The curse of knowledge (and what to do about it)

What to do when someone corrects your pronunciation

The etymology of ‘one’: From Proto-Indo-European to Modern English

Did Kanzi the bonobo understand language?

What alien languages can teach us about human languages: The linguistics of “The Three-Body Problem”

From counting to cuneiform: How writing was invented

The history of “Young Adult Literature”: Don & Danny Explain

Where do writing systems come from? Writing as technology

"dairy milk": What are retronyms?

The development of color terminology

The Grimm Brothers & The birth of modern linguistics

Catalogue of the World's Endangered Languages

The Poverty of the Stimulus & Artificial Intelligence

AI taught to learn words like a baby

“Everything is so expensive anymore”: The linguistics of “positive anymore”

When are words added to the dictionary?

Latin is a language, not a logic puzzle

Good at focusing? You may be bilingual

Can we make a phonetic spelling system for English?

Most of English vocabulary is borrowed

PSA: Don't be judgy about grammar

"It was 7:30 whenever I ate breakfast this morning": Punctual "whenever"

Chinese isn't (technically) a language

If you understand it, it’s correct (maybe)

What’s the best dictionary?

(Not) anything goes: Not all pronunciations are correct

What’s the correct pronunciation of “pecan”?

Preview: What are verb templates? [bonus video]

Did Egyptian hieroglyphics come from cuneiform?

The linguistics of “Prometheus”

How did California get so many languages?

Could Neanderthals hear human speech? New research says “yes”

Letters that make your lips touch (and why!)

Where does the name "Appalachia" come from?

Borrowing grammar rather than words

The same sound or different sounds? Allophones & Allophony

Why is English so inconsistent? Hamburgers, French Fries, Geese and Meese

Linguistics Valentine Poem

Pronouncing a word you've only read: Spelling Pronunciations

How to tell someone is from Chicago based on how they speak

Do older languages have fewer sounds?

Why grammatical gender isn't what you think: The Papuan Languages, Part 6: Nouns & Gender

A language with only 100 verbs: The Papuan Languages, Part 5: Complex Verbs

An entire sentence in one word: The Papuan Languages, Part 4: Verbs

Languages without basic sounds: The Papuan Languages, Part 3: Sound Systems

How to count to 74 on your body: Papuan Languages, Part 2: Counting

The most linguistically diverse country in the world: Papuan Languages, Part 1

Why I hate conlangs

Words you didn’t know are related: gold, yellow, cholera, arsenic, yolk, and more!

Roch-Ambroise Auguste Bébian

The many senses of "run"

shrinkage

How lapis lazuli led to a word for ‘blue’

No Native American languages in the Eastern U.S.?

Preparing for grad school in linguistics

Is the Southern accent disappearing?

The language lacuna in North America

Words from Hell [book preview]

Distinctions Between Things: Linguistics Edition