Language Hippie

Imagine you have a favorite recipe for making cookies. You learned it from your grandmother, and you have always made cookies this way. You ...

If you are a native speaker of English, it's very likely that nothing in the title of this post struck you as unusual -- and yet, it con...

First of all, I want to give a big shout-out and thank-you to fellow linguist Jodie Martin for her wonderful slide show, " So you know...

Hello to all my language hippies out there! I thought I would share an infographic I made earlier today, based upon an image I keep seeing p...

Question: Hey, I’m just wondering- and totally not in a sarcastic/condescending way- from a linguists perspective, if there’s no “wrong” ...

Ben Trawick-Smith's Dialect Blog recently posted a short piece on "great minds who kept their accents." He lists, along with ...

Welcome back, students! It's a new semester at the University at Buffalo, where I have the good fortune to study and teach in the depart...