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  • Sign outside L'office québécois de la langue française -- the Quebec Office of the French Languae

    Language police in Québec: "No noshing allowed."

    Jun 16, 2026 2:30 pm1084 views
  • S. D. Smith's proposal for pham and phem.

    Pham: A century-old nonbinary pronoun you never heard of

    May 18, 2026 2:15 pm910 views
  • A still from the 1953 movie Donovan's Brain

    AI Me

    Apr 16, 2026 12:30 pm2595 views
  • t-shirt with slogan "Everybody wants to be correct but nobody wants to be corrected."

    The grammar gripes just keep on coming

    Mar 14, 2026 4:15 pm9594 views
  • t-shirt with slogan "Everybody wants to be correct but nobody wants to be corrected."

    National Grammar Day 2026

    Mar 1, 2026 11:30 am7730 views
  • Florida license plate with motto "The Banned Speech State"

    Welcome to the Banned Speech State

    Feb 17, 2026 10:45 am9076 views
  • The Old Anarchist says, "I have a pencil and I know how to use it."

    National Handwriting Day 2026

    Jan 17, 2026 3:30 pm6694 views
  • Cover for What's Your Pronoun?

    Faith-based grammar

    Dec 26, 2025 11:30 am1347 views
  • Headline in New York Times: Prosecutors fail to secure indictment against man who threw sandwich at federal agent.

    Is a sandwich a weapon? And if so, does it enjoy constitutional protection?

    Aug 19, 2025 2:00 pm892 views
  • Cover of my book, What's Your Pronoun? Beyond he and she

    Legislating pronouns

    Aug 5, 2025 2:15 pm1188 views
  • Book cover image of What's Your Pronoun? Beyond he and she.

    The second-oldest neopronoun, coined in 1849: ne, nis, and nim

    Jul 29, 2025 12:00 pm688 views
  • Speak the language of your flag--1918 poster

    The good grammar scam

    May 27, 2025 12:30 pm1187 views
  • A left-handed person with a right-handed iPhone

    May 17, 2025 2:45 pm539 views
  • The flag that flew over Fort McHenry

    Can you sing the Star Spangled Banner in Spanish?

    Apr 3, 2025 12:45 pm1687 views
  • American flag forever stamp

    Taking the Pledge--in any language

    Mar 27, 2025 2:15 pm690 views
  • Ban English

    Don’t Make English Official, Ban It Instead

    Mar 1, 2025 1:15 pm3196 views
  • Samuel Johnson defined lexicographer as 'A writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge.'

    The Word of the Year for 2024

    Dec 26, 2024 4:00 pm855 views
  • The search for plural ‘you’

    Dec 5, 2024 3:45 pm1160 views
  • Early version of the First Amendment: Amendment 4. The freedom of speech and of the press, and the right of the people peaceably to assemble and consult for their common good, and to apply to the government for a redress of grievances, shall not be infringed.

    Policing protest speech, part 2: The government would like a word . . .

    Oct 19, 2024 1:45 pm264 views
  • An early version of the First Amendment, labeled Article Four, reads, "The freedom of speech, and of the press, and the right of the people peaceably to assemble and consult for their common good, and to apply to the government ofr a redress of grievances, shall not be infringed.

    Policing protest speech

    Sep 30, 2024 12:45 pm166 views
  • What's Your Pronoun

    Happy National Grammar Day, to those who celebrate*

    Mar 3, 2024 12:45 pm1300 views
  • Baron’s Laws of English Usage

    Feb 16, 2024 4:00 pm335 views
  • The Pronoun, from William Lily's Latin Grammar, 1542

    The War on Pronouns

    Apr 4, 2023 10:45 am2964 views
  • Does the First Amendment mean "You can't make me say your pronouns"?

    Jun 13, 2022 10:00 am11843 views
  • Department of Sanitation Certificate, dated 1956, awarded to the author for services to the "Clean City League" of New York.

    Defining "sanitation" to quash the mask mandate

    Apr 20, 2022 11:30 am885 views
  • A Strict Constructionist Reads “Don’t say Gay”

    Apr 8, 2022 11:00 am623 views
  • Word's diversity checker

    Microsoft Word's Wokeness checker is asleep on the job

    Jan 15, 2022 8:00 am2885 views
  • Definition of iel in Le Petit Robert online

    Don’t blame the new French pronoun on Americans

    Dec 12, 2021 11:15 am5024 views
  • Corpus linguistics, public meaning, and the Second Amendment

    Jul 20, 2021 1:45 pm4661 views
  • The right's new slogan: My free speech, not yours

    Mar 30, 2021 11:00 am2604 views
  • It’s National Grammar Day, so stop grammar shaming

    Mar 3, 2021 9:15 pm4393 views
  • Trump’s words on January 6 were a clear and present danger

    Feb 16, 2021 11:45 am5846 views
  • Ana Suda and Martha Hernandez were detained in Havre, Montana, by a Customs and Border Patrol agent for speaking Spanish

    Shopping while Spanish in Montana

    Dec 3, 2020 10:30 am6117 views
  • The First Amendment, from North Carolina's copy of the original Bill of Rights

    Will the Supreme Court soon be policing your speech?

    Nov 20, 2020 11:00 am6615 views
  • Pronoun backlash

    Oct 4, 2020 12:00 pm23080 views
  • House Joint Resolution 1, presenting what would become the 19th Amendment, passed June 4, 1919; ratified by the states Aug. 18, 1920; became law Aug. 26, 1920.

    There are no pronouns in the Nineteenth Amendment

    Aug 12, 2020 12:00 pm3695 views
  • Pronouns on TV: pop culture meets inclusive language

    Aug 1, 2020 11:45 am2283 views
  • Chicago Tribune headline, Mrs. Young invents pronoun . . . makes principals gasp

    Heer, hiser, himer: Pronouns in the news, 1912 edition

    Jul 25, 2020 1:30 pm2187 views
  • Cover of What's Your Pronoun? Beyond he and she.

    The oldest genderless pronouns are lo and zo, for French, and e, es, em, for English

    Jul 16, 2020 1:00 pm4089 views
  • Cover of What's Your Pronoun? Beyond he and she.

    A grammar lesson for Justice Alito

    Jun 16, 2020 12:00 pm6789 views
  • La Marianne, symbol of the French Revolution

    The French Academy wants you to remember, this virus is feminine

    May 9, 2020 5:15 pm8734 views
  • Cover of What's Your Pronoun? Beyond he and she.

    Verbing pronouns

    Apr 20, 2020 10:00 am2336 views
  • what's your pronoun? cover

    It’s National Grammar Day. I can’t even, and you shouldn’t either.

    Mar 3, 2020 5:30 pm2537 views
  • Cover what's your pronoun

    From they to tey to te: pronoun mansplaining in the 1970s

    Feb 28, 2020 2:00 pm4335 views
  • A sample of pretty perfect 18th-century handwriting, evenly space and leaded, otherwise called English Roundhand, from George Bickham’s Universal Penman, 1743.

    It’s National Handwriting Day: there’s an app for that

    Jan 23, 2020 11:00 am2421 views
  • Will the Word Pedometer make babies smarter?

    Dec 22, 2019 1:15 pm6388 views
  • Thats all Folks: The Apostrophe Protection Society Gone for Good

    Dec 2, 2019 7:00 pm1702 views
  • Gender conceal: Did you know that pronouns can also hide someone's gender?

    Nov 9, 2019 4:15 pm5495 views
  • Grammar-shaming Trump

    Nov 1, 2019 12:00 pm11036 views
  • A mummy announces their pronouns

    Teachers' pronouns

    Oct 22, 2019 12:15 pm18872 views
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  • Sign outside L'office québécois de la langue française -- the Quebec Office of the French LanguaeLanguage police in Québec: "No noshing allowed."
  • S. D. Smith's proposal for pham and phem.Pham: A century-old nonbinary pronoun you never heard of
  • A still from the 1953 movie Donovan's BrainAI Me
  • t-shirt with slogan "Everybody wants to be correct but nobody wants to be corrected."The grammar gripes just keep on coming
  • t-shirt with slogan "Everybody wants to be correct but nobody wants to be corrected."National Grammar Day 2026
  • Florida license plate with motto "The Banned Speech State"Welcome to the Banned Speech State
  • The Old Anarchist says, "I have a pencil and I know how to use it."National Handwriting Day 2026
  • Cover for What's Your Pronoun?Faith-based grammar

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