"Language" Blogs & Blog Posts

All the way back in February 2023, the Internet was briefly aflutter with the news that one of the largest publishing corporations in the world had decided to update some of the nastier language found in beloved children's books by noted anti-Semite...

I wrote yesterday about anti-woke author Bethany Mandel's inability to define "woke" on TV. As part of a hilarious skit posted to Twitter, the Daily Show makes excellent use of Mandel's fumble, having Roy Wood Jr. attempt to defuse a bomb that req...

There's a new op-ed in The New York Times from Noam Chomsky and two of his academic colleagues — Dr. Ian Roberts, a linguistics professor at University of Cambridge, and Dr. Jeffrey Watumull, a philosopher who is also the director of artificial int...

Here's a website full of really interesting maps. It's called "Mapologies" and has the tag line "maps & other fictions." The website states that it focuses on "a range of interests like languages, art, history, geography, maps, and mops...

The older you get, the more you realize that facts aren't nearly as fixed as you thought they were. For decades Pluto was a planet. However, if you were part of the generation that ingested that tidbit during grade school and recited it today, everyo...

Whether you’re speaking with your colleagues in a meeting, or firing off one last email before lunch, if you work in an office environment, chances are you utilize certain words or phrases that you wouldn’t necessarily use in your personal life.

In this episode of Rob Words, Rob looks at the origins of strange collective nouns, terms like "murder of crows," "gaggle of geese," "swarm of bees," etc. Many of these words come from a list of 162 such nouns found in The Book of Saint Albans from t...