linguistlaura

You might have noticed that people yeet  things now. It's a specific type of throwing. Here's a helpful hint I saw on twitter this w...

Cover of 'Have you eaten Grandma?' by Gyles Brandreth I was considering writing a review of this book, Have you eaten Grandma?...

"The dark side of gay stan culture" is the subject of a Guardian article  today. It's about the link between gay men and femal...

Yesterday, quite coincidentally, two of my colleagues sent me electronic communications and used the word bumf. (This is not a reflection of...

The other day, Ben Zimmer at Language Log covered the way that Pussy Riot (the name of a Russian punk band currently in the news ) can be r...

A Language Log post the other day included a use of the word boob  by the male blogger, Victor Mair (whose always interesting posts have f...

I saw this image on the internets illustrating this poor chap's inability to use commas (and knowledge of the difference between the sp...

This time, it's about the slang the rioters use ( article from the BBC ). They call the police 'feds', obviously borrowed from...