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Think you know Pride and Prejudice? Prove it!

Hamed El Said

Wasta

It’s Arabic for an offer you can’t refuse.

Monday, May 16th, 2011

Promzilla

Promzilla: the tyranny of the high school prom, U.K.-style.

Monday, May 9th, 2011

Gobbledygook

The purple poet of Abbottabad.

Monday, May 9th, 2011

Jane Herold

Potter

Get down and dirty with the parlance of pottery.

Monday, April 25th, 2011

Matthew Waldman

Yoroshiku- onegaishimasu

Respectful or rude: in Japan it’s all context.

Monday, April 18th, 2011

Mickey Ehrlich

Of the People

Why language grows from the bottom up, not the top down.

Monday, April 11th, 2011

Gobbledygook

And what kind of bird are you?

Monday, April 11th, 2011

Precariat

When you’re one paycheck away from disaster.

Tuesday, April 5th, 2011

Josh Gelman

Triathlete

Triathlete: vocabulary for iron men and women.

Monday, March 28th, 2011

Mansour Ajami

SHARAF

Showing off Arabic’s vast range of meanings.

Monday, March 28th, 2011

Gobbledygook

Not a certainty by any means.

Sunday, March 13th, 2011

Agnotology

It’s about purposefully constructed ignorance.

Sunday, March 13th, 2011

Ann Pasternak Slater

Translating Pasternak

The problems of putting Russian poetry into English.

Monday, February 28th, 2011

Guillermo Kendall

Matear

Coming together over a shared bowl of tea.

Monday, February 28th, 2011

Chris Kelly

Sitcom Writer

Sitcom writer: a job with a built-in laugh track.

Monday, February 28th, 2011