Our alphabet and how it got that way
How many letters?
Review: Wallace and Garner, Quack This Way
“When it comes to language and usage and writing, there are two kinds of people: those who care, and those who could care less.”
Garner covers 2012
Bryan Garner collects some news of the year in language and writing.
Greeklish
"The growing use of Greeklish by schoolchildren is adversely affecting their spelling skills and may ultimately pose a threat to the Greek language, according to a recent study."
Lexicographers and Twitter
"OUP lexicographers have been monitoring more than 1.5 million random tweets since January 2009 and have noticed any number of interesting facts about the impact of Twitter on language usage."
Geoffrey Nunberg on Twitter
A linguist talks about Twitter (with a 140-character reduction)
Hardly convincing (adverb adjective)
Pullum on Strunk and White on adjectives and adverbs
Pullum on Strunk and White
"Pullum's take on Strunk and White involves a significant degree of distortion and plain misreading."
Readers and writers
From a supercomputing glossary