Onomatopoeia: Words Imitating Sounds

Onomatopoeia: Words Imitating Sounds

What's in a name? Why scientific names are important

It's official: 'tweet' an English word – not just in the avian sense (via)

9 Gender and Sexuality Acronyms You Should Learn

27 Words That Used To Mean Something Totally Different

Do You Speak the World's Weirdest Language?

Why other languages don't use thesauruses like we do

Illustrations of Unusual and Rarely Spoken Words

A Brief Guide to Arabic Scripts and Calligraphy

The Anti-Slavery Alphabet: A Remarkable 1846 Primer for Children

A Dictionary of Victorian Slang

Separated by a common language

12 Lonely Negative Words

A Dictionary of Victorian Slang (1909)

Why Do We Hate Certain Words?

The Oxford English Dictionary and its chief word detective

The Alphabet of Nature and Angels. English is not a language spelled phonetically, but 200 years ago Isaac Pitman tried to change that.

The Strange History Of Everyday Greetings And Phrases

The 24 Most Important Things Ever Written In Bathroom Stalls

The 10 most scandalous euphemisms

Where does the expression 'Gordon Bennett' come from?

A linguistic dissection of 7 annoying teenage sounds

Hobson-Jobson: The words English owes to India

The Fascinating Phenomenon of Whistled Languages

25 Words You Might Not Know Are Trademarked

50 Collective Nouns to Bolster Your Vocabulary

Duolingo gives language learning a jump start

14 wonderful words with no English equivalent

Exclusive! The Words That Journalists Overuse

The Fascinating Phenomenon of Whistled Languages

7 Words that Came About from People Getting Them Wrong

A Fashionable Melange of English Words (1887) (via)

The Speech Chain: A Vintage Illustrated Guide to the Science of Language

In China’s map of the world, Russia is the “Land of Rowers” and North Korea is “Morning Calm”

Why Do People Use Nope Even Though No Is Shorter?

Man ordered to pay for swearing at his mum

London’s Twitter Languages

Neil Armstrong’s family reveal origins of 'one small step' line

Bath stroke victim Alun Morgan starts talking Welsh

Phone call translator app to be offered by NTT Docomo

London’s Twitter Languages

What’s the secret to learning a second language?

20th century gestures / Supplement to the Italian Dictionary

How I learned a language in 22 hours

11 Weirdly Spelled Words—And How They Got That Way


Montreal bylaw requires dogs understand commands in both official languages

10 Language Mistakes Kids Make That Are Actually Pretty Smart

How I Learned to Check Mine Instead of Making Fun of People’s Grammar on the Internet

12 Letters That Didn’t Make the Alphabet

The Most Common Grammar Gaffes Writers Make (and How To Avoid Them)

What Were the Last Words Spoken on the Moon?

Chinese woman writes with both hands -- simultaneously

12 Horrible Gobbledygook Words We Reluctantly Accepted (via)

Why Do People Tell Actors to "Break a Leg"?

The 5 Most Persuasive Words in the English Language

The History of the Exclamation Point

Do Be a Dick (sometimes): Emotions and Skeptics

Disease Maps Pinpoint Origin of Indo-European Languages

The History of the Exclamation Point

20 Things You Didn't Know About... Language

Historical Dictionary of American Slang (via)


Jamaican patois bible launched in UK
14 More Wonderful Words With No English Equivalent

The Accidental History of the @ Symbol

A Compendium of Words and Phrases Referring to Dogs

Emoticons: The History of Digital Sarcasm ;-)

Oxford Dictionary: Tracing blue-arsed flies and Bellinis

What phrases commonly used today are derived from obsolete technologies?

Graffiti From Pompeii

Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period

The New Science of the Birth and Death of Words

Google confronts extinction of more than 3,000 languages

101 Links to Learn Any Language for Free

Can a First Language be Totally Forgotten?

That'll teach you to swear: Pupils aged 11 given lessons in four-letter words

10 Most Impressive Polyglots In World History

The abbreviation “OMG” is almost 100 years old

Graffiti From Pompeii

In Italy, telling a man he has 'no balls' is now a crime

Puzzling heritage: The verb ‘fart’

'Beam Us Up, Mr. Scott!': Why Misquotations Catch On

The Story of Symbols

Why Bilinguals Are Smarter

15 Grammar Goofs that Make Us Look Silly

7 Commonly Corrected Grammar Errors (That Aren't Mistakes)

10 Untranslatable Words (And When You’ll Want to Use Them)

A brief history of four letter words

The myth of English as a global language

50 Funny Spelling Mistakes on Twitter

The Story of Symbols (via)

Poor spelling of 'auto-correct generation' revealed

'Today,' 'Tomorrow,' and Nine Other Words You Can't Search For In China

Why Do We Say 'Hmm' When Thinking?

5 Insane Ways Words Can Control Your Mind

15 Famous Thinkers Who Couldn’t Spell

The 20 Biggest Differences Between British and American English

'Happy Potter,' in the 'First Lady's Box,' and Other Typographical Errors to Remember

5 Insane Ways Words Can Control Your Mind

19 Outstanding Words You Should Be Working Into Conversation

s**tstorm 'best English gift to German language'


Sign writers need a spelling lesson

Betws-y-Coed website finds 364 misspellings of name in search engine

Word of the month

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious: What does it mean?

10 Grammar Disputes that Stirred Up Legal Trouble

18 Everyday English Words That Come from Irish

The Periodic Table of Swearing

Can Pakistan Ban ‘Jesus’ and 1,600 Other ‘Obscene’ Words From Text Messages?

Here’s Every Single Word You’re Not Allowed to Text in Pakistan NSFW

Say What? Talking Trash Through the Ages (via)

Hack Your Gadgets and Home to Teach Yourself a New Language

The Periodic Table of Swearing NSFW

The 20 Most Controversial Rules in the Grammar World

Distinguishing blue from green in language

20 Embarrassing Facts about Foreign Language Learning in the U.S.

History’s Most Famous Last Words

English Idioms & Idiomatic Expressions

William Safire's Rules for Writers

'Klingon' helps Milton Keynes man deal with dyslexia

'Klingon' helps Milton Keynes man deal with dyslexia

10 Words You Might Think Came from Science (But Are Really From Science Fiction)

Seven deadly words you should never use

Sometimes foreign names are just funny

It used to mean a bundle of Mongolians

OMGWTF: A guide to Internet acronyms

15 Most Butchered Phrases in the English Language

Local Twitter Slang, And All That Jawn

14 Punctuation Marks That You Never Knew Existed (via)

Welcome to the English language

What’s the language of the future?

Top 10 Misused English Words

Amusingly Horrible Things Moms Have Said and Amusingly Horrible Things Significant Others Have Said

Famous Quotes That Were Never Said

Top 10 Misused English Words

20 Inspirational Quotes to Live your Life By

Top 10 Invented Languages (via)

Americanisms: 50 of your most noted examples

10 Invented Languages and Why People Use Them

55 Grammar Offenses That Make Teachers Go Mad

Woot! Retweet and sexting enter the dictionary

11 Common American Phrases With Intriguing Origins

How English Language Has Changed Over The Years [Infographic]

9 Deadly Words Used by Women

What foreign words are difficult to translate into English? (via)