I just read a strange book on linguistics called The Kingdom of Speech by Tom Wolfe, published August 2016. I don't recall buying it, i...

While our children were in high school we hosted several European exchange students in our home for whom English was a second, third, or e...

I’ve just nicely started reading a new language book and want to share some thoughts from it. Robert Lane Greene is a writer who lives in...

In linguistic circles Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) is better known for his discovery of phonetic changes in the development of Proto-Germanic th...

Modern linguistics accepts that all languages are constantly changing and considers this a normal process. But if normal, then what are the ...

The October 23 AWAD email had a link to a news article on the word order of the first language.  Talk like Yoda? We May have originally by ...

In the last post I quoted a newspaper columnist’s dismay at the degradation of English, particularly the incorrect use of who and whom . Li...

The Saskatoon Star-Phoenix published a column in this morning’s paper by Bronwyn Eyre titled “ Who still appreciates proper grammar? ” In i...

Linguists class words as either concrete or grammatical. Concrete words represent objects, actions, feelings, etc - things that can be named...

After several years of receiving catalogues in the mail from The Great Courses [www.getgreatcourses.com] I finally ordered one (my wife actu...