English is spoke all over the world. How come? Erica Brozovsky explains.
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Why do some people say “ax” instead of “ask”? Geoff Lindsey explains.
Related:
“Ask or aks? How linguistic prejudice perpetuates inequality,” Amanda Cole, Ella Jeffries, and Peter L Patrick, The Conversation
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So, is it condescending or just annoying?
More:
“So, What’s The Big Deal With Starting A Sentence With ‘So’?” Geoff Nunberg, Fresh Air
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“Vowels,” a short film by illustrator and filmmaker Temujin Doran, based on a 1945 Linguaphone instructional recording.
Hat tip: Maria Popova, Brain Pickings
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You may have read that the new 12th edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary omits the term “cassette tape” from its entries to make room for a bunch of new Web terms like “sexting,” “retweet” and “woot.” Digital displaces analog, get it? Good story, only it doesn’t appear to be true.
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