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Why You Swear in Anglo-Saxon and Order Fancy Food in French: Registers
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There's Nothing Wrong With Saying "10 Items or Less": Descriptivism vs Prescriptivism
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Ghoti and the Ministry of Helth: Spelling Reform
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Gender Neutral Pronouns: They're Here, Get Used To Them
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Mele Kalikimaka: Why You Can't Say "Christmas" in Hawaiian
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Why Do We Have "Ye Olde"? Obsolete Letters, and the Mysteries of Ye Olde Ming
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Adjectival Order: Why A "Big Red Balloon", not a "Red Big Balloon"?
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Why You Can Tweet More In Japanese: What Counts As A Character?
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Making Flaps Vibrate In Your Throat: Voicing
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Why Computers Suck At Translation
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Crash Blossoms and Being Drunk: Ambiguity
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Why Can't Adults Learn Languages Like Children?
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Long and Short Words: Language Typology
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What Counts as a Word?
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why typing like this is sometimes okay.
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Why “No Problem” Can Seem Rude: Phatic Expressions
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The Language Sounds That Could Exist, But Don't
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Can The Words You Read Change Your Behavior?
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Why Do We Move Our Hands When We Talk?
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The Sentences Computers Can't Understand, But Humans Can
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Abso-b████y-lutely: Expletive Infixation
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The Hidden Rules of Conversation
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Ə: The Most Common Vowel in English
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Which Is "Bouba", and Which Is "Kiki"?
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It’s pronounced GIF.
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How Many Languages Are There?
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Why Shakespeare Could Never Have Been French
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How languages steal words from each other
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there’dn’t’ve
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Does the language you speak change how you think?
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