Mr. Verb

Caught a nice eggcorn - at least I think it counts as one - on the UW L&S Honors Program description of a grant where a first- or secon...

We've followed some of the animal communication stuff lately, like plans for an elephant dictionary (that still cracks me up) and the o...

So, maybe science journalism is just there to confuse us about what scientists are actually doing and reporting in publications. I've be...

Below is an invited guest post from Team Verb undercover operative "√v". — Mr. V I've been disturbed from my summertime slacki...

Awwww, language coverage by the BBC. This time , it's putty-nosed monkeys in Nigeria. And the argument is that they are combining relati...

The Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States ( LACUS ) is an old linguistics conference — going back to 1974, and founded as: ...