Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook When me found out I’d been hired to work at The Daily I wuz so excited, I screemed. If you cringed ...

Two New Yorker writers recently inveighed against the school of linguistics called "descriptivism" (which, to be honest, is pretty much all of linguistics, unless you consider the retired guy who ...

Journal of Linguistics has as its goal to publish articles that make a clear contribution to current debate in all branches of theoretical linguistics. The journal also provides an excellent survey of ...

Nature or nurture. Love it or leave it. If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit. If you didn’t already know that euphonious dichotomies are usually phony dichotomies, you need only check out the latest ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. When it comes to the use of words, people (and dictionaries) generally fall into two camps: They use words the way they were ...

I WOULDN'T have expected Kingsley Amis to be the one to nail this just right, but he did. His son Martin wrote an essay for the Guardian a little while back about Kingsley's 1997 usage book "The ...