Latest articles by Neal Whitman
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Rainbows and unicorns: A linguistic history
feature It all seems to date back to a 19th-century French book
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The linguistic trick behind A Good Day to Die Hard
The Explainer Some words and phrases are so nice you don't say them twice
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A brief history of the phrase 'talking filibuster'
feature It seems to have been coined by the late Sen. Arlen Specter
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From absentee-vote to zero-tolerate: 26 backformed compound verbs
feature An alphabetical tour of modern verbs that entered the language backwards
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The delights and frustrations of off-road grammar
feature The rules of English grammar don't always provide a clear A-to-B linguistic route. Be prepared to take some detours.
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The humble spatula's linguistic origins
feature It's richer than you might imagine
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A linguistic dissection of our affect/effect problem
feature Almost everyone mixes these two words up at some point. It didn't have to be this way.
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A linguistic tour of the best libfixes, from -ana to -zilla
feature It's a listacular wordgasm!
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