Antedating the Oxford English DictionaryThis talk by Peter Gilliver – Executive Editor (Lexicography): Finalisation – was originally delivered to Prof Beth R...

2024 LingComm Grants - Small Grants for Communicating Linguistics to Wider Audiences We want to see more linguistics in the world!  The 2024 LingComm Grants are $500 (USD) to support linguistics comm...

Instructors: Dot Porter and Nicholas Herman Are you a medievalist or early modernist? Are you a K-12 teacher with a unit on medieval or renaissance history? Are you a library science instructor who te...

Removed works include Saul Bellow’s ‘Herzog’ and ‘Black, White and Jewish’; no individual reasoning given for books' removal

Here is a list of the 673 books removed from teachers’ classroom shelves in Orange County for fear they might violate state law and rules on “sexual conduct:”

Republican-led efforts to dismantle free-speech protections on college campuses could reshape the geography of higher education.

Grace Hopper on Letterman

The first use of the F-word comes from a monk in 1528. It's just one part of the weird, mysterious history of this infamous four-letter word.

Liberal-leaning professors are leaving coveted jobs with tenure. And there are signs that recruiting scholars has become harder.

From "unabridged" to "slanguage," Madeline Kripke's library is a logophile's heaven (or hell).

Tools such as chatGPT have sparked a surge of interest in AI technology in 2023. However, as some people have learnt the hard way, AI-generated text can't always be relied upon.

Discoveries suggest St Pancras workhouse that may have inspired work of Charles Dickens was intended to be place of comfort