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A strange language Apr 21, 1997 Article 379
Reading the (Obscene) Handwriting on the Wall Jester Jul 19, 1999 Article 169
Editorial CoN Staff Oct 18, 1999 Article 184
Being Misquoted Jester Sep 25, 2000 Article 56
How to Write Like a Fucking Idiot Sean B. Palmer Dec 31, 2002 Article 578
Apostrophic Alliteration Melissa DeWilde Jul 21, 2004 Article 704
The High Illiteracy Level of Corporate America Colin Dec  9, 2004 News 612
The rise of Indian English Colin Sep 24, 2007 News 1706
The Seven Words capnasty Jun 24, 2008 News 1789
Word Cloud Analysis Le Brunette Smurfette Jan 21, 2009 News 2056
Cops Talk Funny capnasty Jan 30, 2009 News 2067
The Gujarati Story of Valentine's Day Gagan Feb 14, 2009 News 1671
It's the only border in Canada that hasn't been surveyed capnasty Feb 28, 2009 News 2114
Grammar Nerd Corrective Label Pack capnasty Oct 16, 2009 News 2763
The "blog" of "unnecessary" quotation marks capnasty Nov  3, 2009 News 2828
30% of University Students Unable to Pass Minimum English Proficiency Exam capnasty Feb  1, 2010 News 3203
Metaphor of the Week capnasty Feb 22, 2010 News 3268
How To Exit A Conversation Gracefully capnasty Mar  4, 2010 News 3325
The Etymology of 'Cunt' capnasty Mar  8, 2010 News 3283
Na'Vi: The New Klingon capnasty Mar 29, 2010 News 3406
Na'Vi Comes to Life capnasty Mar 29, 2010 News 3407
The World's Oldest Words capnasty Apr  7, 2010 News 3461
How do YOU pronounce Eyjafjallajökull? capnasty Apr 20, 2010 News 3507
The Self-Appointed Twitter Police Scolds capnasty Apr 28, 2010 News 3569
Top 10 Codes You Aren't Meant To Know capnasty May 14, 2010 News 3633
What Irony Is (And What It Really Is Not) capnasty Jun 25, 2010 News 3868
Login: Not a Verb capnasty Jun 27, 2010 News 3869
Periodic Table of Swearing capnasty Jul 13, 2010 News 3972
chinaSMACK capnasty Jul 16, 2010 News 3976
Oops! It's George's Fault capnasty Jul 29, 2010 News 4084
Un-Suck It capnasty Aug 16, 2010 News 4182
Chillax and Bromance Now in the Dictionary (RT @SaraCera) capnasty Aug 19, 2010 News 4221
The Gender-Neutral Pronoun: 150 Years Later, Still an Epic Fail capnasty Aug 29, 2010 News 4268
Mourning the Loss of the Hard Copy Dictionary capnasty Sep  1, 2010 News 4286
Turkish Cellphone's Missing Dot Kills Two People, Puts Three More in Jail capnasty Nov 23, 2010 News 4637
Language at Risk of Dying Out as Last Two Living Speakers Aren't Talking to Each Other capnasty Apr 17, 2011 News 5234
The Stop-Saying-Awesome Button is Awesome capnasty Apr 18, 2011 News 5237
OMG Was First Used in 1917 by British Admiral capnasty May 15, 2011 News 5389
My First Dictionary capnasty May 20, 2011 News 5338
How to Get a Baby Phone Toy to Curse Like a Sailor capnasty Jun 27, 2011 News 5448
Muggles and Squibs: The Language of Harry Potter capnasty Jul 15, 2011 News 5562
Pronunciation Book: YouTube Channel Teaches You How to Pronounce Words capnasty Aug 17, 2011 News 5654
News Wordy: Buzzwords in the Media capnasty Aug 18, 2011 News 5692
Woot's a Word capnasty Aug 23, 2011 News 5702
Racist is the New Nigger capnasty Sep  7, 2011 News 5779
World's Funniest Analogies capnasty Sep 20, 2011 News 5822
Awesome is No Longer Awesome capnasty Sep 25, 2011 News 5843
The Average Font capnasty Sep 26, 2011 News 5846
Unnecessary Journalism Phrases capnasty Sep 30, 2011 News 5865
Periodic Table of Swearing capnasty Oct 21, 2011 News 5956
Vive la tweet! A Map of Twitter's Languages capnasty Dec  7, 2011 News 6166
Engrish Signage Now On Sale capnasty Dec  7, 2011 News 6155
@StealthMountain: the Sneaky Anal-Retentive Grammar-Correcting Peak capnasty Jan 11, 2012 News 6269
Shit Nobody Says capnasty Jan 14, 2012 News 6295
Wordpharmacy: Temporary Literacy Pharmacy from Berlin capnasty Feb  7, 2012 News 6380
"Dude": Turns Out, It's Not a Word Coined in North America capnasty Feb 24, 2012 News 6450
Robotic Graders Mark Papers Better, Faster Than Humans capnasty Apr 25, 2012 News 6700
"E-mail and texting are not writing at all." Talking With Your Fingers capnasty Apr 28, 2012 News 6716
Only Two Countries Can Officially Be Referred to With the Article 'The' capnasty Aug 31, 2012 News 7230
No Homo Phobes Dot Com: Keeping Track of Homophobic Slurs on Twitter capnasty Sep 27, 2012 News 7357
Prison Slang Words capnasty Oct 24, 2012 News 7453
Supplement to the Italian Dictionary: a Visual Guide to Italian Hand and Body Gestures capnasty Oct 24, 2012 News 7454
Why English Words Are Spelt So Weird capnasty Nov 18, 2012 News 7550
Why Black Friday is Called Black Friday capnasty Nov 23, 2012 News 7576
Vaguely Rude Place Names of the World capnasty Feb 11, 2013 News 7874
Two Dozen Words That Sound the Same, Mean the Same Thing and Haven't Changed in Over 15,000 Years capnasty May  8, 2013 News 8210