[Categories] > Language & Literature

Synesthesia (July 8, 2004)
Making sense of shared senses

Snow Crusts (July 26, 2004)
A few words about the surface of snow

Scruples and Stones (August 26, 2004)
A pebble for your thoughts

The Klingon Language Institute (September 12, 2004)
The final frontier of linguistic scholarship

Hypercorrection (September 13, 2004)
Taking the rules of language too far

Pittsburghese (September 14, 2004)
America's most underappreciated dialect

Linguistic Categories (September 15, 2004)
Women, fire, and dangerous things

Style Guides (September 16, 2004)
I'm OK, you're okay

Bahasa Indonesia (September 17, 2004)
The complex story of a simple language

Walloon (September 18, 2004)
Green Bay and the French connection

The Globe Theatre (September 19, 2004)
Shakespeare's ideal venue, then and now

Demosthenes' Stones (September 26, 2004)
Improving your diction, Athenian style

The Bodleian Library (October 18, 2004)
Oxford's famous book sanctorium

Bad Fiction Contests (October 19, 2004)
A way to pass the time on dark and stormy nights

The Writings of Carlos Castaneda (October 21, 2004)
Sorcery, mythology, or both?

Bookcrossing (November 27, 2004)
Passing the book

Weblogs Revisited (December 5, 2004)
The phenomenon of public digital journals

TidBITS (December 9, 2004)
The joy of text

Take Control Ebooks (December 10, 2004)
Electronic publishing that works

Intaglio Printing (December 11, 2004)
Duplicating under pressure

Halcyon Days (December 14, 2004)
Why tranquility is for the birds

Aproposisms (December 19, 2004)
The right word (for 'the right word')

Malaria (December 21, 2004)
Bad air, good vegetables

Folk Etymology (December 22, 2004)
Lazing your way to a bigger vocabulary

Pennsylvania Dutch (December 23, 2004)
The Germans of Lancaster County

English Female Social Titles (December 24, 2004)
Miss-ing the point

Hymir's Cauldron (December 27, 2004)
Thor's goblet-throwing prize

Spoonerisms (January 2, 2005)
Sixing up mounds

Performative Verbs (January 4, 2005)
Doing as you say

Esperanto (January 6, 2005)
Artificial language for the masses

Tag Questions (January 10, 2005)
You know what this is about, don't you?

Tagmemics (January 13, 2005)
The linguistic theory of everything

The Skin Project (January 14, 2005)
Short story as body art

The Thinker (January 18, 2005)
The story behind Rodin's famous sculpture

Palacio Barolo (January 19, 2005)
The divine office building

Gaiman (January 27, 2005)
New Wales in Patagonia

The Voynich Manuscript (April 17, 2005)
Cryptography's holy grail

English Spelling Reform (April 18, 2005)
The difficult path to simpler spelling

Dead Media (April 19, 2005)
Preserving past communication for the future

Portmanteau (May 14, 2005)
When words intertwingle

Euskara (May 27, 2005)
The extraordinary Basque language

Moleskine Notebooks (May 30, 2005)
The little black book strikes again

The Fata Morgana Effect (July 24, 2006)
Fairy castles in the air

National Novel Writing Month (October 27, 2006)
Becoming a novelist in 30 days

Hay-on-Wye (November 6, 2006)
The Town of Books

Mondegreens and Eggcorns (December 6, 2006)
Giving old words a new ring

826 National (March 16, 2007)
Pirates, spies, superheroes, and young authors

The Woodwose (April 18, 2007)
Bigfoot's European cousin

Lichens (April 30, 2007)
A tale of two organisms