What would be your Word of the Year for 2013? - 0 views
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Jenni Young on 03 Dec 13From Oxford Dictionary blog: Word Trends and New Words
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The rise of the portmanbro - 0 views
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How an abbreviation of brother became a word-forming dynamo (from Oxford Dictionary blog: Word trends and new words
How language is literally losing its meaning - 1 views
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The Oxford English Dictionary has accepted a new definition for the word literally - and it's not the only word changing beyond recognition. It's enough to, like, make one despair
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The Oxford English Dictionary has accepted a new definition for the word literally - and it's not the only word changing beyond recognition. It's enough to, like, make one despair (Blog)
Poetic justice: spoken word artist's story finds tender end - 1 views
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'My story here is not really my story. I see so many guys like me, I see so many people who were once like me': Kosal Khiev, a Cambodian-American spoken word artist, is the subject of an upcoming documentary made by Studio Revolt founder Masahiro Sugano (Phnom Penh Post article)
And the Word of the Year Is... Selfie! : The New Yorker - 0 views
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Silvia Killingsworth explores the history and culture surrounding the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year for 2013: "selfie" (blog)
Infographic: a closer look at 'selfie' - 0 views
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From Oxford Dictionary blog: Word Trends and New Words
Beijing's call to ban foreign words in Chinese media meets with mocking satire | South... - 0 views
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The recent call by Chinese authorities to banish foreign words in Chinese publications and broadcast has met with scathing sarcasm and mockery online.
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The recent call by Chinese authorities to banish foreign words in Chinese publications and broadcast has met with scathing sarcasm and mockery online.
Some Words Are Up To No Good, Even If They Seem Harmless. Think It's Time To Get Rid Of... - 0 views
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'You Don't Say' is a campaign at Duke University to raise awareness of how some words are not harmless.
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'You Don't Say' is a campaign at Duke University to raise awareness of how some words are not harmless.
An Alarm Over the Incursion of Foreign Words - 0 views
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While a language's absorption of foreign words is often seen as a positive mark of a society's cosmopolitanism, the reaction in China has been anything but positive - at least according to state media.
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While a language's absorption of foreign words is often seen as a positive mark of a society's cosmopolitanism, the reaction in China has been anything but positive - at least according to state media.
The First Time - spoken word - 0 views
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March 26th changed the way Nick Gilyard looked at the world. Hate crimes were something that was only seen in books and movies, but that all changed on his walk home. Spoken word.
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March 26th changed the way Nick Gilyard looked at the world. Hate crimes were something that was only seen in books and movies, but that all changed on his walk home. Spoken word.
Stephen Fry shares his love of language in Fry's Planet Word - 0 views
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Review of TV series Planet Word
Words that last - 0 views
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A research team led by Mark Pagel at the University of Reading in England has identified 23 "ultraconserved words" that have remained largely unchanged for 15,000 years (Washington Post)
Women really do talk more than men (13,000 words a day more to be precise) - 0 views
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Researchers from the University of Maryland say the reason women are more talkative - and speak up to 20,000 words a day - is because of higher levels of the Foxp2 protein (Mail Online)
Mathematics: Spoken Word by Hollie McNish - YouTube - 0 views
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Spoken word about anti-immigration sentiments
Words From a Father to His Daughter (From the Makeup Aisle) - 0 views
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Maybe a father's words can deliver his daughter through this gauntlet of institutionalized shame and into a deep, unshakeable sense of her own worthiness and beauty. A look at how the language of make-up ads can affect girls.
Letting a Word Fade Away - 0 views
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Letter to the editor in response to an article: "In Defense of a Loaded Word," by Ta-Nehisi Coates
A Poor Apology of a Word - 0 views
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It is peculiarly English to use the word "sorry" to defuse the potential for conflict while drawing attention to it. (Op-Ed)
Slip of the Tongue by Karen Lum - YouTube - 0 views
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Film by Karen Lum, featuring spoken word piece by Adriel Luis, touches on language, beauty, ethnicity, gender…
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Film by Karen Lum, featuring spoken word piece by Adriel Luis, touches on language, beauty, ethnicity, gender…
Trying to Close a Knowledge Gap, Word by Word - 0 views
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Several campaigns are seeking to help the young children of poor and immigrant families by urging parents to spend more time talking to them (NY Times)
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Several campaigns are seeking to help the young children of poor and immigrant families by urging parents to spend more time talking to them (NY Times)
The Journey From 'Colored' To 'Minorities' To 'People Of Color' : Code Switch : NPR - 0 views
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The words used to describe race and ethnicity are ever in flux. A favored term one decade becomes passé the next and not nice soon after that. But, the motivation for change remains constant: Respect.
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The words used to describe race and ethnicity are ever in flux. A favored term one decade becomes passé the next and not nice soon after that. But, the motivation for change remains constant: Respect.
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The words used to describe race and ethnicity are ever in flux. A favored term one decade becomes passé the next and not nice soon after that. But, the motivation for change remains constant: Respect.