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Language

Meet the Professor Behind The First Printed Use of 'Shit Happens'

Erik Shilling February 26, 2016

Ted, Mitt, And Gratz: A Short History of Candidates Who Hate Their First Names

Sarah Laskow February 11, 2016

New Hampshire Mill Workers Invented A New Type Of French

Sarah Laskow February 8, 2016

How the Oxford English Dictionary Went from Murderer's Pet Project to Internet Lexicon

Natalie Zarrelli January 11, 2016

Need a Chill Pill? Here's a Recipe from the 19th Century

Jaya Saxena January 4, 2016

Carnegie in 1913

The Great Failure of Andrew Carnegie's Simplified Spelling Lobby

Ernie Smith December 14, 2015

Where's Me a Dog? Here's You a Dog: The South's Most Unusual Regionalism

Sarah Laskow December 2, 2015

Albert Joseph Moore's Dreamers.

How Americans Changed the Meaning of 'Dream'

Disaffected teens in Berlin carry on a storied tradition.

How Humans Went From Hissing Like Geese To Flipping The Bird

Cara Giaimo November 18, 2015

Gabagool? Over here!

How Capicola Became Gabagool: The Italian New Jersey Accent, Explained

A linguistic exploration.

Dan Nosowitz November 5, 2015

A harpy in Ulisse Aldrovandi's Monstrorum Historia, Bologna, 1642

Just Like Feminist, Fishwife Was Supposed to Be an Insult

Andy Wright October 9, 2015

I Made a Linguistics Professor Listen to a Blink-182 Song and Analyze the Accent

Dan Nosowitz June 18, 2015

St. Helena Island

Hilton Head Island, South Carolina

Gullah Heritage Trail

The language and heritage of a nearly forgotten culture can still be explored in this Southern enclave.