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http://www.npr.org/blogs/npr-history-dept/2015/04/17/400061497/addiction-in-american-history-14-vivid-graphs

http://www.npr.org/2015/04/12/399210557/the-rise-of-the-no-totally-linguistic-phenomenon

http://www.npr.org/2015/02/02/383289958/fuhgeddaboudit-new-york-accent-on-its-way-out-linguists-say

http://m.mentalfloss.com/article.php

P it for Pterodactyl

The perfect holiday gift for any child you'd like to confuse beyond belief:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1492674311/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1

"For whatever reason, foods and curse words linger longer in a disrupted language."

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-capicola-became-gabagool-the-italian-new-jersey-accent-explained

Grab a horn of zeese and read this:

http://www.npr.org/2015/01/17/377734363/do-you-harp-a-slib-of-the-ling-one-small-towns-opaque-language

I want to hear some good ones...

What's your favorite word? Why?

What's your least favorite word? Why?

Words You Won't Use

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An unexpected history of ketchup in this NPR interview with Dan Jurafsky, author of "The Language of Food:  A Linguist Reads the Menu

A Quick Guide to Liberian English, by Michaeleen Doucleff on NPR Blogs

Don't 'let a frog out of your mouth' by misusing these fun international idioms

Vape beats out bae, slacktivism, and others for 'Oxford Word of the Year'

Languages "lost" in infancy imprint on the brain in a way similar to bilingualism