Articles with keyword "language"
Curio
Apocalypse Not
In few fields is the gap separating educated opinion from specialist opinion so wide as in linguistics.
IQ
Impertinent Questions with Edwin L. Battistella
On the self-help career of grammarian Sherwin Cody.
Curio
Name-Dropping In Rhode Island
Familiarly known as the “Ocean State,” Rhode Island’s full official name includes “and Providence Plantations,” words the state legislature has resolved to drop.
Feature
The United States of Mestizo
A term of conquest and miscegenation now describes a cosmopolitan identity and worldview.
Curio
Poetry Speaks
“Voice registers the weird sexiness of reading poetry, the illusion it enables of a private tryst between author and reader.” So says Lesley Wheeler, an English professor at Washington and Lee Univers
Curio
First, Count to Ten...In Pescadora
Archaeologists from Harvard University’s Peabody Museum working in Peru have unearthed a piece of paper used in the early seventeenth century by a Spanish priest to conduct an interview and record num
Curio
Mon Dieu!
“The issue of keeping the French language alive in Louisiana,” says Dana Kress, a professor at Centenary College in Shreveport, “is always accompanied with great wailing, much pulling of hair, and fev





