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‘Bro’s Collecting Languages Like Pokémon’: Mamdani Makes Cultural Inroads by Speaking Bangla, Mandarin, Spanish in a Surprise Broadway Giveaway

By Terrina Jairaj Aug 17th
‘Dune: Part Two’s Attention to Detail Proves to Be in a League of Its Own With This Revelation

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

By Victoria McNally Feb 12th