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Linguistics

Something a garbage son might do.

The Linguistic Appeal Of 'Garbage Person,' The Internet's Favorite Insult

We trace the phrase's provenance from Charles Manson to Clickhole.

Cara Giaimo March 16, 2016

Is This the First Time Anyone Printed, ‘Garbage In, Garbage Out’?

Ironically, the early computing phrase's history is rife with bad information.

Rob Stenson March 14, 2016

New Hampshire Mill Workers Invented A New Type Of French

Sarah Laskow February 8, 2016

A traditional British Christmas Pudding, decorated with holly and set alight before eating.

What Brits Talk About When they Talk About Pudding

Dan Nosowitz December 3, 2015

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

Sarah Laskow December 2, 2015

'An Ostentation of Peacocks,' and Other Flowery Ways Medieval Hunters Grouped Birds

Eric Grundhauser November 24, 2015

Gabagool? Over here!

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

A linguistic exploration.

Dan Nosowitz November 5, 2015

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

Dan Nosowitz June 18, 2015