May, 2011

Come and get it! New Words.

Tweet The Collins Official Scrabble Words dictionary has added hundreds of new words to its list, reflecting recent developments.  They include “thang,” “innit,” “grrl,” “Wiki,” and “Myspace.” At the beginning of the school year, a burgeoning list of new words could be created, adding to it throughout the year as words like “Abbottabad,” or “The […]

THE SCARY SCIENCE: LINGUISTICS!!!!!!!!

Tweet DON’T END A SENTENCE WITH A PREPOSITION!!!!! NEVER USE “I” IN AN ESSAY!!!!!!!! DON’T SPLIT INFINITIVES!!!! These old guidelines are obviously not the way we either speak or write, so what use are they?  Steven Pinker calls them Old Wives’ Tales.  Yet we have to have some kind of rules for our language, don’t […]