Walt Wolfram, a renowned linguistics professor at NC State, is retiring after 34 years in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, leaving a legacy of community-centered research that has reshap...

Once you start noticing “it’s not X, it’s Y” as you scroll online, you can’t fail to register it. I’ve become so hypervigilant that it has seeped into my subconscious thoughts

Another trimester, another buncha goodies

Love them or hate them, these colorful phrases let us speak in shorthand. Check out the origin of slang words—and how to use them.

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A new study, published in PNAS, led by researchers at the University of Oxford and the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) has found that large language models (LLMs) – the AI systems behind chatbots like

Lexicographer and linguist Grant Barrett grew up with an insatiable need to read and the bigger the books, the better.  In this episode of The Written Scene, Grant talks about how a focus on langua...

How in the absolute fuck can this be the tenth installment of the annual Tucker Awards recognizing excellence in swearing? Somehow, it’s true: feast your eyes on the nine previous installment…