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‘Vape’ is your Oxford Dictionaries Word of 2014

But it's been around longer than you think.

On Nov 18, 2014 by Miles Klee

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The Internet didn’t like Mark Zuckerberg’s Chinese accent

Zuck woos China.

On Oct 23, 2014 by Taylor Hatmaker

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How language nerds create Latin words for the 21st century

How language nerds create Latin words for the 21st century.

On Sep 29, 2014 by Greg Stevens

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Oxford Dictionaries adds ‘subtweet,’ ‘neckbeard,’ ‘catfish,’ and more

ICYMI.

On Aug 14, 2014 by Miles Klee

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We asked an English teacher to grade Pornhub comments

Strunk and White would hang their heads in shame. 

On Jul 4, 2014 by EJ Dickson

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This English guy is teaching Japanese people how to swear

One guy's doing what other English and Japanese teachers can't.

On Jun 23, 2014 by Michelle Jaworski

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‘Soccer’ isn’t an American word

New research suggests the Brits actually invented the term they make fun of Americans for using.

On Jun 19, 2014 by Jack Flanagan

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Obama to America: Pronounce ‘GIF’ with a hard ‘G’

It's a hard "G," as in "government oversight."

On Jun 13, 2014 by Miles Klee

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Twitter is really bad at spelling ‘World Cup’

GRRRRROOOOOOAAAAAALLLLL!

On Jun 12, 2014 by Miles Klee

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The Beyoncé tour of Urban Dictionary

Her dominance over our vocabularies is really above and beyon… cé.

On Jun 11, 2014 by Molly McHugh

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What we learned from a 7-year tour of @everyword

Parting is such sweet sorrow. Or hardship. Or agony.

On Jun 5, 2014 by Miles Klee

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There really is such a thing as a grammar Nazi

The American Nazi Party insists fellow Jew-haters use proper English.

On Jun 3, 2014 by Miles Klee

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The Internet is killing most languages

But some will still survive in the "meat space."

On Apr 3, 2014 by [email protected]

Panama Canal

Want to read the world’s longest palindrome sentence? Get comfortable

A man, a plan, a computer program, etc. This thing is 17,826 words.

On Mar 29, 2014 by Miles Klee

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The AP Stylebook’s latest change is wrong, but that’s never mattered less

Over? More than? There's more than meets the eye to the latest linguistic meltdown.

On Mar 20, 2014 by Miles Klee