The American Dialect Society—the same august, century-old body that brought us “-ussy” as its 2022 Word Of The Year—has gone ahead and once again decided to choose chaos, naming “rawdog” its WOTY for ...

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Languages move and inspire UB doctoral student Kristen D’Alessandro Merii. As early as her teenage years, she remembers her fascination with high school Spanish, how she learned “a little of ...

Language is an ever-evolving and living thing; a social construct plucked from the minds of millions, with each hand that touches it shaping it in some small but ineffable way. And like all living ...

Bert Vaux’s dialect survey is endlessly fascinating, prompting thousands of folks to figure out which American dialect they speak. This video mixes audio of people taking the survey with Joshua Katz’s ...

Alex Wollor speaks English. It is the language he used at home, in school and on the streets in his native Liberia. So when the teenager fled the civil war there, eventually settling with his mother ...

The American Dialect Society (ADS) has selected the suffix “-ussy” as its 2022 Word of the Year, after a TikTok trend popularized adding the end of the word “pussy” to basically any other word. The ...

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