The massive Oxford English Dictionary is, practically speaking, the official... ...official and exhaustive guide to the words of the English language . John Simpson, the Chief Editor, is retiring afte...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/05/08/Etaoin-Shrdlu-and-Other-Odd-Words-in-the-Oxford-English-Dictionary/
Oh, English . The language we all know and love, the lingua franca of a larg... ...ith Herman of mental_floss dug up 14 of English words that are their own opposites. For ex... ...8221; “Oversee,” from Old *strong class="ma...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/04/04/Words-That-Have-Opposite-Meaning/
In standard English grammar, the pronoun who is used as a subject and...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/03/31/The-End-of-the-Pronoun-Whom/
NFL players are doing a service to students at the Elmwood Franklin School in Buffalo, New York simply by tweeting. They're providing great examples of bad grammar which second grade students are correcting.Perhaps we co...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/02/02/Second-Grade-Class-Learns-Grammar-by-Correcting-the-Tweets-of-Pro-Football-Players/
In formal English grammar, the pronoun "they" is always plural. The... ...here is no gender-nonspecific singular pronoun in English . This is a problem, for there is often a need to... .... In graduate school, the use of gender-inclusive language was pounded into me, so I now...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/01/19/Should-We-Stop-Using-the-Singular-They/
Two linguists argue that modern English isn't really a West Germanic language , most similar to modern German, Dutch and Frisian... ...n German, Dutch and Frisian, but a North Germanic language , such as Norwegian, Swedish and Danish:Their rese... ...hose of earlier lingui...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/12/08/Scholars-English-Is-a-Scandinavian-Language/
It flows off the tongue and inspires curiosity abo... ..."cellar door" as the most beautiful phrase in the English language :The claim that cellar door is beautiful to the ea... ...What do you think is the most beautiful phrase in English
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/10/12/Is-the-Most-Beautiful-Phrase-in-English-Cellar-Door/
Hiroshi Mikitani, the founder of Rakuten Inc., has... ...s--meetings, emails, verbal conversations--in the English language : At the time of the 2010 announcement, only ab... ...squo;s 6,000 Japanese employees could function in English , according to a case study by the Harvard Busines... ...oyees, forced...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/08/08/Japanese-Company-Switches-Entirely-to-the-English-Language/
Above is a selection from a 1711 printing of Milton's Paradise Lost. Notice that what appears to be the modern letter f appears in the place of the modern letter s. This is the "long s"--a typographical practice of past...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/06/23/when-did-english-lose-the-long-letter-s/
If you've been using heavily patched, older versio... ...been using heavily patched, older versions of the English language , you'll be pleased to know that a completely upda... ...t's great: Just downloaded the beta version of English V3.31, and I have to say I am very excited about... ...differentiate be...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/23/english-v3-31-released/
