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"Today's morphology is yesterday's syntax"

1 day ago

Wikipedia's entry on Univerbation tells us that "The univerbating process is epitomized...

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4 days ago

Alaina Demopoulos, "Women are giving their partners the ‘Illiterate Boyfriend’ test: ‘Do...

Backronym of the year

4 days ago

…is ACHOO — "Ever sneeze immediately after stepping into the sun? It's...

"Colonel Tom Parker" == Andreas Conelis van Kuijk

7 days ago

Dolly Parton's passing inspired Josh Marshall to dive deeper into one of...

Evolution of laughing

8 days ago

…and speech? or at least "vocal control" Chiara De Gregorio, Marina Davila-Ross,...

Unusual risks

10 days ago

The title of Sal Mercogliano's latest "What's Going on With Shipping?" vlog...

"David Advanced Plus+"

11 days ago

Stephen Collins' August 14 comic in the Guardian, "Meet David Advance Plus+...

Tariffs

11 days ago

The latest xkcd The mouseover title: ""You legs may have a comparative...

F.A.N.Y.P.A.C.K.E.

15 days ago

Steven Collins' January cartoon from the Economist starts with a man's sudden...

"We shall fight on the Bloombergs"

17 days ago

Paul Krugman's latest Substack echoes Churchill's famous 1940 speech President Trump's remark...

Caveman linguistics

19 days ago

Today's SMBC The mouseover title: "I was trying to figure out why...

Transliteration mystification

20 days ago

From the Wikipedia page on Pafnuty Chebyshev The surname Chebyshev has been...