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Whenever media coverage of a linguistic phenomenon goes as far off the rails as the recent vocal fry fiasco , linguists blame themselves. To...

"Vocal fry" has been a trending topic for about a week now. It began with a Science Now post that starts out ominously A curiou...

Following up on my plurality post , Jon Stevens showed me this video done by Kory Stamper , an associate editor at Merriam-Webster. Based o...