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● Continuing investigations into the origin(s) of the word “Cat”

● “Pernickety” – tracing a word’s origin(s)

● Natesto®. What Else? (drug-naming study)

● Analysing Pointless Banter

● ‘Sort of’ – academic study

● Kinda Sorta Linguistic Research

● Professor D’Arcy on like a contemporary vernacular

● The inconsistencies of animal-based insults in German and English

● The California-ness of open-mouthed jaw settings (new study)

● SIL e-Books – the bees’ knees for rhyming jingles (linguistics study)

● Misplace apostrophes – miss out on med school?

● ‘Stethoscope’ – and other medical poems

● “Dead Cat Bounce” (an elucidation)

● Redefining Nonsense in English and Chinese (new study)

● Whistled languages – like ‘local cellular phones’ (study)

● Interrupting people : the pros and cons

● The Cheese Scholars Collective examine Cheese Naming

● Foster’s six defenses for legal obscurity

● Umpteen reflections on Indefinite Hyperbolic Numerals

● Whatever happened to the punctus? [punctuation studies]

● Speaking whilst breathing-in (not restricted to ventriloquists)

● It’s complicated, dude (sociolinguistic investigations)

● Is it a Mug or Cup? Recent Progress in Fuzziness Studies

● Gerbil psychoacoustics update

● The Army-misunderstanding-for the avoidance of

● Fawlty Implicatures* in Torquay

● “YES!” – a comprehensive review (part 2)

● ‘Dunno’ under the microscope

● “YES!” – a comprehensive review (part 1)

● Thesis: The swear words in a movie

● Professor Culpeper’s Insult Power Rankings

● Mongolian Gerbil psychoacoustics

● Nonstraightforward Explorations of “Well”

● Textual Analysis of Fortune Cookie Sayings

● Yeah + Creaky Voice

● Updated meaning(s) of “Uh(m)”s

● The many meaning(s) of “Uh(m)”s

● Hand(writing) v Type(writing)

● Be2 or not be2?

● Answering machine talk – under academic scrutiny

● Jamaican patois paper

● Klingon Shakespeare in academia

● Lingual incompressibility

● Blirtatiousness: the propensity to blurt

● The use of ‘Oh’ in dubbed Catalan sitcoms

● Licking the Spoonerism Problem

● A load of vague non-numerical quantifiers

● Anagrammatological studies

● Automatic Sarcasm Recognizer – “yeah right”

● Horrors: ‘Art’ in Artificial (Intelligence) Poetry

● Word of the day ‘Re-McDonaldization’

● Typo typos and [email protected]

● Tautogram paper record?

● The Zwickys – looking at words

● ‘Most’ — what does it mean, mostly?

● Review of several studies of ‘Yawp’ in China

● Laugh-Out-Loud-Speak, academic Konklushuns

● Much ado ablaut flim flam

● Santa Claus Internet Jokes (a Latvian study)

● Ni phrases (It’s not just knights who say…)

● Oblique Linguistic Enigmas: deciphering “NOT/NOT”

● Booing research

● Misinterpretable study title of the week: Eye Extraction

● Filled pauses at the Supreme Court

● Nonword Generator OnLine

● Reversal linguistics in explorations

● “Willy-Nilly” (the evolution of)

● The most Curious Work ever Published?

● Old books up your nose [2]

● Eats words and leaves

● The uses and meanings of “Um” revisited

● Grunts in Conversations

● Discourse analysis of men’s online groin shaving talk (new study)

● Discourse analysis of men’s online groin shaving talk (new study)

● Putting words into dogs’ mouths – ventriloquistically

● Ellipsis in English Literature

● ‘Malaforms’ – pronunciation through the mangle

● High quality literature production and mating success

● Praga-dialectics update: An analysis of “Yes, but …”

● “Commenting by Emoji: A Tentative Glossary for Legal Writing Professors”

● ‘Ludefaction’ defined

● “Like” a linguistics study

● Strategies and tactics for ironic subversion

● Delivering sarcasm? Which ear to use?

● “Um”ing and “Uh”ing (when dosed with Ketamine)

● What makes a metaphor difficult to understand?

● Jocular mockery (and mock impoliteness)

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