A review of The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Magic and Mystery of Practical English by Roy Peter Clark (and more). Why do exclamation points get a bad rap? The pause that annoys: Jan Freeman on when a comma makes life needlessly hard. A look at words that don’t exist in the English language. My BFF just told me “TTYL” is in the dictionary — LMAO: A look at new words, senses, and phrases have been added to the New Oxford American Dictionary. An interview with Bernard Lamb, author of The Queen’s English: And How to Use It. Pesky pedant, moi? If Jane Austen can flout the rules of grammar so can Sally Feldman. A most noticeable thing is the paucity of Indo-European words for “right hand”, as opposed to the abundance of names coined for its opposite. A review of Word Catcher: An Odyssey Into The World of Weird and Wonderful Words by Phil Cousineau. The English language, which arose from humble Anglo-Saxon roots to become the lingua franca of 600 million people worldwide and the dominant lexicon of international discourse, is dead. UCLA's Emanuel Schegloff on the many meaning(s) of “Uh(m)”s. World's largest English-Chinese dictionary: After five years of work undertaken by 60 editors, the new Oxford University Press Chinese Dictionary is finally complete. OMG, etc: When did we start speaking in sets of capital letters? Lane Greene looks into the rise of the acronym and its sibling the initialism (and part 2 and more). A look at the history of the word “Rum”. A literal paradox: “Literally” generally means "figuratively". A review of OK: The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word by Allan Metcalf (and more).
