Are Our Screams, Sighs, and Giggles Universal?
Two studies suggest yes and no
Don’t Mock the Monocle (A Webcomic)
On our unspoken preferences for ordering adjectives
Zugzwang in the New Year
You can’t win—should you even try?
The Disappearing Accent
For a while, youngsters stop noticing differences between dialects
A Modest Proposal and a Goodbye
On improving science coverage, and finding the good stuff already out there
Baby Got Rhythm?
Keep the beat and improve your language skills
Solidarity in Confusion
What we convey when we converse
Wounded By Books
Brits of an earlier age read at their own risk
English vs. English
On the concrete and the abstract, the Germanic and the Latinate
