- Icelandic girl wins right to use her given name
- Quebec language police claim Italian restaurant menu has 'too much Italian'—"Late on Feb. 20, however, the OQLF appeared to have backtracked, releasing a statement calling their attack on the Italian restaurant 'overzealous.'"
- Language wars: Quebec unions share 'horror stories' of civil servants who used bilingualism to help citizens
- Hawaii Sign Language found to be distinct language
- Breathing life into a dying language—"Chogi Higa's Gardena classroom is perhaps the only place in the continental United States to learn Uchinaaguchi, the tongue of Okinawa. It may be a lost cause, but it's a sentimental one for many students."
- Bilingual babies know their grammar by seven months
- New cunning linguist computer has got ancient tongues licked
- The Oatmeal: The evolution of our spine and speech
- How should Shakespeare really sound?—"The British Library have released the first audio guide to how Shakespeare's plays would have sounded in the original pronunciation."
- Foreign accent speakers: How American do you sound?
- Why Don't You Hear Someone's Accent in a Song?
- Video: "No Asians thankyou."
- Blast from the Past: Why are fantasy world accents British?
- NJ School Implements 'No Cursing' Rule But Only for Girls—"A teacher who organized the campaign says that while males weren't asked to take the vow, they have been asked not to swear when girls are near."
- Quvenzhané Wallis and the Onion tweet: Why is the C-word so offensive?
- The F-word in the arts and on the marquee
- Steven Pinker: The Language of Swearing—Continues in Part 2.
- Video: Dexter's Rude Removal—Kudos to [ adult swim ].
- Most of What You Think You Know About Grammar is Wrong
- A Wealth of Words—"The key to increasing upward mobility is expanding vocabulary."
- I Won't Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here's Why.
- Lernstift digital pen vibrates to indicate bad spelling, grammar and penmanship
- 7 bogus grammar 'errors' you don't need to worry about
