Mr. Verb

What you thought was the cold lifeless corpus of Mr. Verb may be twitching again ... stay tuned. Bwahahaha.

... all wrapped up in one nice package in this morning's New York Times ! It's a little hard to know where to start. Well, let...

This was fun (well, for a language nerd, anyway). I spotted this eggcorn in an article about Wisconsin's education-destroying governor...

Some of the Wisconsin Englishes folks have talked off and on about doing maps of 'linguistic resources' in communities, figuring out...

Subject line pretty much says it all. See here .

There’s a lot of talk now about UW faculty being poached or just looking to flee the state. The following is a real letter from a senior fac...

Look at this clip of an interview with Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald. The host, Mike Gousha, asks specifically about tenure, ...

Hermann Zapf has passed away. The NYT obit has a good sketch of his life and work, including designing Palatino and Optima fonts. In lingu...

This blog has been silent about recent developments aimed at destroying the University of Wisconsin by more rapid defunding, by dismantling ...

Various UW folks have attended this workshop and recommend it highly. Besides, it's Sweden in September. The 6th Annual Workshop on I...

I do not read David Brooks. Bad for my health. But when I saw the headline " Talent loves English " this morning, I hadn't had...

Nice article about Wil Rankinen's research on English in the UP … here .