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‘Dune: Part Two’s Attention to Detail Proves to Be in a League of Its Own With This Revelation

By Mar 7th
Scottish Reader Calls Out Authors Who Use Gaelic Incorrectly to Spice up Fantasy

By Nov 2nd
Why Does Grammar Only Seem To Matter When Discussing Inclusive Language? Spanish Edition.

By Jul 31st
This Misguided AP Guideline Just Shows that Stigma, Not Grammar, Is the Problem

By Jan 30th
Using “Woke” To Mean Whatever You Need It To Mean Isn’t Limited To Right-Wing Media and I Hate It

By Oct 12th
Well Here’s a Good, Fitting Use for That Money You Saved Seeing ‘Prey’ at Home

By Aug 12th
Henry Louis Gates Jr. Spearheading Official AAVE Dictionary With Oxford Dictionary

By Jul 28th
Why Does the ‘New York Times’ Feel the Need To Inject Transphobia Into the Fight for Abortion Access?

By Jun 8th
The 7 Most Popular Phrases Used in Anime

By May 31st
What do San, Kun, Chan, Sama, Sensei, and Senpai Mean?

By May 26th
What is Wordnesia? Why Words Sometimes Look Weird, Explained

By Feb 21st
One American Wrote Most of Scots Wikipedia. And They Got It All Wrong.

By Aug 26th
Experts Want us to Stop Saying “Quid Pro Quo” When it Comes to Trump

By Nov 10th
It’s Okay to Say the Word “Abortion”

By May 21st
Far Fewer People Support a “Fetal Heartbeat” Bill When They Find out What That Actually Means

By May 14th
Foreign Star Wars: The Last Jedi Translations Make It Plural, but That Doesn’t Clear Up Anything

By Feb 17th
On Oxford Dictionaries and “Rabid” Feminism

By Jan 22nd
First, Oldest Recorded Case of Fucks Given Dates Back to 1310

By Sep 14th
New Study Suggests That Human Language Is Naturally Biased Towards Happy Words

By Feb 12th
Things We Saw Today: Why You Can Smell That Petrichor After It Rains

By Jan 18th