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.
Trends in less-gendered language in Europe.
Language beyond the gender binary.
When hyphens are unnecessary.
Pronouns and gender in SFF.
The language of menus.
Latinx Latine.
Triumph of the swears.
The Black history of slang.
In defence of Eric Partridge.
Eco-friendly typeface selection.
A brief history of the phrase B movie.
Language is a poor heuristic for intelligence.
Danish dictionary gets a gender-neutral revision.
Protecting endangered languages: it’s complicated.
Which languages take the longest to learn? (archived)
What films and literature reveal about the voice in your head.
39-volume historical Swedish dictionary is complete(-ish).
Notes from retired copy chief Benjamin Dreyer.
Nibling, and why it’s absent from dictionaries.
The benefits of hearing different accents.
The uncertain origins of x in algebra.
Changing Australian accents.
Antedating (in) the OED.
Irish Gaelic is in vogue.