Monthly Archives: January 2014

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/09/science/study-finds-literary-mood-reflects-previous-decades-economy.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/22/books/oeds-new-chief-editor-speaks-of-its-future.html?_r=0

A (semi-)serious article in the Mail Online discusses the possibility that cows have “regional dialects”: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-401843/Cows-regional-accents-Pull-udder-one.html This topic is very amusingly treated in a segment from the NPR podcast “How to Do Everything” (Dec. 31, 2013), where Sir Patrick Stewart … Continue reading →

The American Dialect Society, at its recent annual meeting, chose the prepositional use of “because” as its ‘Word of the Year’: http://www.americandialect.org/because-is-the-2013-word-of-the-year The Society considered other words, such as “twerk” and “selfie”. It’s interesting to look at past ‘Words of … Continue reading →