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Lenawee Smiles: Correct comma usage has become a lost cause
The Daily Telegram via Yahoo News· 9 months agoFor some reason and for some people, the use of commas can bring those folks to their knees weeping....
Patrick Hanks, lexicographer who illuminated the history of rude words and surnames – obituary
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 2 months agoPatrick Hanks, who has died aged 83, was a lexicographer, corpus linguist and onomastician, one who...
A succinct but not flaccid examination of English pronunciation
The Week via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSpeech. Illustrated | iStock Let me be succinct. OK, I'm "succinct." Now how do you say me? I did a...
Javier Milei bans ‘Marxist’ gender-neutral language in government documents
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 2 months agoJavier Milei addresses the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland - JOSE LUIS...
This Kansas City man tried to create a new national language for people learning English
Kansas City Star McClatchy Articles via AOL· 1 year agoAt the turn of the 20th century after moving to Missouri from Italy, Nikoles Aleshi created a new...
Spanish Royal Academy rejects suggestion to change language's name to 'Ñamericano'
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 10 months agoThe director of the Spanish-speaking world's top linguistic institution on Monday rejected an Argentinian author's suggestion to rename the Spanish language to “Ñamericano” to reflect the continent ...
Using Someone’s Pronouns Respectfully Isn’t Complicated. Here Are BuzzFeed News’ Guidelines.
BuzzFeed News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThis is an excerpt from Quibbles & Bits In March 2021, Halsey wrote in an Instagram story, "The...