“You’re Saying It Wrong”
Why the Pledge of Allegiance may have some soul-searching to do
What Does the Owlet Say?
On the competitive squabbles of barn owl siblings
Why So Few English Words for Odors?
Another language shows it doesn’t have to be so
Zugzwang in the New Year
You can’t win—should you even try?
Spanish in the City
What’s behind an ongoing change to the Spanish spoken by New Yorkers?
The Powerless I
Can pronouns carry social meaning?
The Search for Meaning in Sound
On kerfuffles and hullabaloos and rethinking iconicity
The Disappearing Accent
For a while, youngsters stop noticing differences between dialects
Much Reading. Wow.
On the delicate dance between humor and inscrutability
Compendiums of Everything
A brief history of the modern encyclopedia