Language Log: 'The' culture war
As we've discussed from time to time, some English proper names take a definite article ("the Times", "the Bronx") and others don't ("Language Log", "Brooklyn"). The public transport system in Boston...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Help! I'm trapped in a ???
For the past couple of weeks, I've been getting a bunch of curious email messages that start like these: Thank you for contacting the comics and features department at The Washington Post. Even...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Obituary for Fred Jelinek at Computational Linguistics
Back on September 15, when I posted the news of Fred Jelinek's death, I promised to say more when I'd had a chance to think about it. Then, a few days later, Robert Dale asked me to write an obituary...
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