We turn to Stanford University Professor Seth Lerer, scholar of the English language: "I have come to believe that in fact, that is a regional or class dialect pronunciation, and that while educated ...

There are two kinds of linguistic missteps, the typos and the thinkos. Typos are the processing glitches that intercede between a thought and its expression. They can make you look foolish, but they ...

Last week we looked at the hows and whys of some words we tend to mispronounce. It turns out we mispronounce some words because we come upon them while reading and apply to them our English-language ...

When speaking about nuclear weapons, George W. Bush invariably pronounces the word “nucular.” Is this an acceptable pronunciation? Not really. Changing “nu-clee-ar” into “nu-cu-lar” is an example of ...

It’s a stirring moment. The president is rallying the nation, speaking of weapons of mass destruction, Saddam Hussein, good and evil. You watch, silently cheering him on, and then, suddenly, you sense ...

Stanford linguistics professor Nunberg suggests using language as a""jumping-off point"" to learn more about Americans' evolving values and attitudes in this feisty, humorous collection of essays ...