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• So your a pedant? It's nothing to be proud of

  11 Sep 2014: Bridie Jabour: Is there anything more tedious than grammar keyboard warriors? I doubt it

• Let’s eat Grandma! How to use, and not use the comma

  4 Sep 2014: David Marsh: ‘If you could edit your past, what would you change?’ ‘I’d get rid of all the commas’ – Peter Carey

• What happens in the brain when you learn a language?

  4 Sep 2014: Scans and neuroscience are helping scientists understand what happens to the brain when you learn a second language

• The Sense of Style review – lessons in how to write

  3 Sep 2014:

  What makes some prose compelling and some soggy? And do split infinitives matter? Henry Hitchings on a new and jaunty guide

• Belarusian man seeks damages from Russian media for offending his country

  2 Sep 2014: A citizen has filed a law suit against three news agencies over the use of the word ‘Belorussia’, an outdated term he claims is an affront to his honour and dignity. Window on Eurasia reports
  

• Feisty, flounce and bossy: the words used to put women down

  1 Sep 2014: Emine Saner: Do you ever hear men described as ‘hysterical’? Do people say they ‘whine’ or ‘nag’? Thought not. Here are eight sexist words we’d like to never hear from again

• Emoji: the first truly global language?

  31 Aug 2014: The emoji has come a long way from its origins as a cute footnote to text messages. But what will we lose in translation, asks Alex Clark

• Why the calls of the wild may be more complex than zoologists first thought

  30 Aug 2014: Mathematical models offer new insights into animal vocal sequences, but evolution of language remains a mystery

• Word criminal? The web will sentence you

  29 Aug 2014: Gary Nunn: Here are the current funniest ways the web is telling us to mind our language

• Have we reached peak peak? The rise (and rise) of a ubiquitous phrase

  27 Aug 2014:

  Paula Cocozza: First it was peak oil, then peak beard, peak Beyoncé and peak porn. Have we had enough of the joke yet?

• Who is this year’s public language champion?

  27 Aug 2014: The Guardian is asking the public to nominate candidates for a public figure who champions language education

• Duolingo creator: 'I wanted to create a way to learn languages for free'

  27 Aug 2014:

  Luis von Ahn, chief executive of language learning app Duolingo, talks to Lottie O'Conor about the democratisation of education, gamification and the importance of listening to users

• From marvellous to awesome: how spoken British English has changed

  26 Aug 2014:

  A study called the Spoken British National Corpus 2014 reveals how our use of language is evolving. Is British English succumbing to American influence, asks Tim Dowling

• Woto! Which old-fashioned words do you like saying?

  26 Aug 2014: Open thread: It’s cheerio to ‘marvellous’ and toodle-pip to ‘fetch’, so say boffins. Do you have any spiffing, top-drawer old words you just can’t give the heave-ho?

• Woe is me (or is it I?) about rules that (or is it which?) are broken

  22 Aug 2014: Letters: Steven Pinker’s article was both fascinating and infuriating to a sticklers like us (or should it be ‘such as we’?)

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