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One Letter Words, a Dictionary Compiler Craig Conley says, "In Shakespeare's time, R was called littera canina, 'the dog's letter', because it sounded like a dog's growl.… Started by tom sarbeck	0	Aug 7, 2014
Emotionally loaded vowels We speak as we feel, we feel as we speak Assume one cartoon character is always happy and another usually not. Which character is happy, Ko… Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner	1	Aug 1, 2014 Reply by Grinning Cat
Automatic captions and fiberglass growth factor Before spelling was fixed, people read aloud. I feel thrown back to the Middle Ages when reading a YouTube video transcript. This was a st… Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner	2	Feb 23, 2014 Reply by Loren Miller
Changes to word meanings. I just heard about “The Sharing Economy”: http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21573104-internet-everything-hire-rise-sharing-economy If… Started by Idaho Spud	4	Feb 7, 2014 Reply by Dogly
Typos and Other Sources of Humor In my job I occasionally have to respond to call center forms documenting mis-shipments, missing parts, overages, etc. So, often I end up d… Started by Glenn Sogge	162	Nov 26, 2013 Reply by Ruth Anthony-Gardner
Will your head literally explode? OED recognizes informal use of "literally" The Oxford English Dictionary now recognizes the long-used informal sense of "literally" as an intensifier meaning "virtually" or "figurati… Started by Grinning Cat	6	Aug 24, 2013 Reply by Idaho Spud
Soda? Pop? Coke? and over 100 other dialect variations (survey results and maps) http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/maps.html One of the 122 questions: 105. What is your generic term for a sweetened carbonated b… Started by Grinning Cat	3	Mar 10, 2013 Reply by Grinning Cat
Rape culture embedded in language Discussion of the underlying cause of India's rape culture, and that of mysogenist violence against women worldwide, underlies the role of… Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner	1	Mar 8, 2013 Reply by Grinning Cat
Txtng and the future of English Prof. Anne Curzan reassures us that the sky is not falling -- that textspeak is not bringing chaos and anarchy to the language -- and discu… Started by Grinning Cat	0	Mar 3, 2013
Two layers of language How Human Language Could Have Evolved from Birdsong: Researchers Propose New Theory On Deep Roots of Human Speech ... human language is a g… Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner	0	Feb 22, 2013