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A great reply to a bad take on language

NPR’s Code Switch and great linguistics episodes

Google’s Bad Voice

Song lyrics and culture

George Will’s incorrect and dangerous complaints about language

Helsinki’s largest paper believes in language nonsense

Positive “anymore”

More misidentified passives

George Packer and the Atlantic’s sad defense of inequity

Dr. Andrew Thomas tries to mansplain mansplaining

Janne Saarikivi’s Fascism Lite, or how to fearmonger with statistics

Grambank linguistic database

Some of Noah Webster’s spelling changes haven’t happened yet!

How NOT to talk about language change