"The essence of a click is a lingual ingressive airstream mechanism. However, in nasal clicks the nasalization involves a separate nasal airstream, generally pulmonic egressive but occasionally pulmonic ingressive. Similarly, voiced clicks also require a simultaneous pulmonic egressive airstream to power the voiced phonation." from Wikipedia.

"Has a remote Amazonian tribe upended our understanding of language?" from The New Yorker.

"Is the beloved paper dictionary doomed to extinction? In this infectiously exuberant talk, leading lexicographer Erin McKean looks at the many ways today's print dictionary is poised for transformation." from TED.com

“'I left it on the southern edge of the western table.'” from NYT.

"All puzzles that appeared in the Linguistics Challenge adhered to strict guidelines, as outlined by the charter of the International Olympics in Linguistics and Mathematics."

"The Alot is an imaginary creature that I made up to help me deal with my compulsive need to correct other people's grammar."

That that is is that that is not is not is that it it is. from Wikipedia.

James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher. from Wikipedia.

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. from Wikipedia.

We've developed an array of metaphors for talking about the intangible spaces of the web. Maybe it's time to unshackle ourselves from some of them. by Jeremy Keith in Scroll Magazine.

They hide all measure of righteous fury behind the mask of bureaucratic neutrality. from Prospect Magazine.

How to use an apostrophe

"We are, all of us, abandoning taxonomy, the ordering and naming of life." from nyt.

Welcome to the new version of the Oxford English Dictionary's science fiction words site. The base project was originally set up so that knowledgeable aficionados could help the OED find useful examples of words in their fields of interest. This first project, and still the only public one, is devoted to science fiction.

An ongoing project devoted to discovering all the words and everything about them.

excrescence and anaptyxis.

what's your word?

START, the world's first Web-based question answering system, has been online and continuously operating since December 1993.

what makes good copy good.

is language in our genes?