Transliteration and part-of-speech tagging for Japanese and English (at present).

‘This is why, when fashionable words show up in our day, we grind our teeth. We’re cynical because we don’t trust fashionable words.’

Wonderful post on language and pedantry by Stephen Fry.

A fun look at how (American) English might sound a hundred or a thousand years from now.

Using ‘less’ with countable nouns: perfectly cromulent since at least the 9th century.

I’m bookmarking this purely out of delight at seeing BBC News publish the word ‘fuck’ without cowardice or bowdlerisation.

Why there are so many bad Chinese-English translations containing the word 'fuck'.

Lexical sets for classifying pronunciation across English dialects.

Singlish is one of my favourite dialects. This dictionary is comprehensive, scholarly, and full of profanities: what more could one ask for?

The Economist’s style guide.

‘It is the common language in almost every endeavor, from science to air traffic control to the global jihad, where it is apparently the means of communication between speakers of Arabic and other languages.’

A satisfying excoriation.

Intended for word games.

A wonderful, free compilation.