Consonant Aspirations

Today's post is brought to you by "ongoing problems with terminology in linguistics". As my newsfeed this week has filled u...

The BBC just covered this story:  Singapore terms join Oxford English Dictionary , which is basically about how Singapore English words lik...

At the moment, I'm TA-ing for a course called Language and Power here at the University of Oregon, and I've been recounting the f...

According to the Online Etymology Dictionary , the English word hotel  was first recorded in the 1640s and denoted a 'public official r...

In my previous post , I looked at what the government had hoped to accomplish through its language policies, as summarised here in this quo...

I've been meaning to post this for a while now, since I saw this advertisement at my uncle's clinic here in Singapore. It's an...

Whenever I'm in India, I'm often struck by the 'extreme brevity' of some of the text messaging language or textese here. It...

I was reading one of the local papers here in Guwahati the other day, and this headline caught my eye. Most English speakers outside of I...

Generally, if I wanted to know what someone else was up to at a later point in time, I'd probably ask them, "Do you have any plans ...

I don't actually own a smartphone, but this video's been making the rounds since the introduction of Siri with the new iP***e. I tho...

The other night I went to the Crystal Jade restaurant at Holland Village (Singapore). As I got to the top of the stairs I saw a sign on the ...