Before they gather any more digital dust, here are a few dozen links on a linguistic theme – etymology, grammar, slang, dialect, gesture, writing, spelling, animal communication, etc. – for your reading and listening pleasure.
Ope.
On slop.
Holy mackerel!
On balk and baulk.
Whence the backslash?
The grammar of “was trulyn’t”.
On deep reading vs “digital orality”.
Janet Malcolm vs English as she is spoke.
Pronoun research: an annotated bibliography.
What does it mean to live without handwriting?
Hallucinating Parrots, a new blog on the linguistics of AI.
The New Yorker updates its style guide. A little.
ITA: a radical 1960s experiment in spelling.
The complexity of cow communication.
Bracket symbols and what they mean.
Taking the “shoulds” out of reading.
Advantages of life as a copy editor.
Your brain on language (podcast).
Detecting genAI-generated text.
A repository of Irish dialects.
Best possible Boggle board.
Fatal vs lethal vs mortal.
Irish eggcorns.
On gesture (podcast).
A letter from Helen Keller.
Ten rules for rules for writers.
John Phillips: a slang Don Quixote.
New words (and senses) in the OED.
Making sense doesn’t always make sense.
Some Guardian readers have gotten upset.
Comparing animal sounds across languages.
Linguistic universals in mid-20thC US (podcast).
Shiver me timbers isn’t about being cold (podcast excerpt).
Emblems: Meaning at the interface of language and gesture.
Grammar police by Bizarro:
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