When you name a product, you want that name to be... ...t was simply named for its ingredients. Dr. Erica Brozovsky (previously at Neatorama) gives us some tips on u...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/10/29/Linguistics-Can-Be-Crucial-in-a-Brand-Name/Most of us never think about punctuation when we r... ...ed, although they varied by language. Dr. Erica Brozovsky (previously at Neatorama) tells the story of how...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/09/23/How-and-Why-We-Have-Punctuation-Marks/What do the words woodchuck, cockroach, hangnail,... ...s derived from ground and hog. Linguist Dr. Erica Brozovsky (previously at Neatorama) explains what happened...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/08/21/Folk-Etymology-Word-Origins-That-Are-Just-Plain-Wrong/Have you noticed the proliferation of the word "un... ...why would that word be banned? Linguist Dr. Erica Brozovsky
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/07/25/When-Linguistic-Self-Censorship-Goes-to-Extremes/The development of language gave early societies a... ...ry, and all those are pretty important. Dr. Erica Brozovsky of Other Words (previously at Neatorama) goes thr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/06/26/Some-Words-Really-Are-Magic/"Jargon" refers to language that only means someth... ...still not say anything useful. Linguist Dr. Erica Brozovsky (previously at Neatorama) explains how this langu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/05/23/The-Scourge-of-Nonsensical-Corporate-Jargon/A controversy among linguists which has been ragin... ...languages were all originally related? Dr. Erica Brozovsky (previously at Neatorama) explains how linguists...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/27/Do-All-Human-Languages-Have-Basic-Grammar-Rules/You've heard the phrase "don't think about an elephant." It is impossible to achieve, because the word elephant implants that concept in our heads, despite the word "don't" that we understand. Understanding that negative...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/05/Negation-A-Difficult-Language-Concept-We-All-Understand/We all know what a living language is- those are the ones we use. But languages eventually die out when people don't use them. The death of a language is a gradual process that goes from a lack of native speakers to no s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/02/28/Whats-the-Difference-Between-a-Dormant-Language-a-Dead-Language-and-an-Extinct-Language/The words we use for body parts may be among the o... ...and have always been with us. Linguist Dr. Erica Brozovsky (previously at Neatorama) tells us about some of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/01/30/The-Words-for-Body-Parts-Tell-Us-a-Lot-About-the-History-of-Language/
