01.05.2025 Columns Gimme Shelter: Words, words, words — 2025 edition The Reporter Institute of Language and Semantics (RILS) has, after a unanimous vote by its esteemed Board (sleep-deprived cranks) deemed the 2024 Phrase of the Year as: “Oh, my...
12.19.2023 Around the Island Gimme Shelter: What’s the good word? It’s time once again for Gimme Shelter to present our annual review of how the English language fared during the year that’s hurrying away from us, and the report...
12.17.2022 Columns Gimme Shelter: What’s happened to the English language? Another year, another report on the rapidly crumbling edifice of the English language tilting unsteadily in a widening pile of gibberish. That’s one way of looking at it. Another...
12.31.2021 Columns Gimme Shelter: Word(s) of 2021 What was your word or phrase that defined 2021? Topping the list, after Gimme Shelter’s team evaluated extensive research, including focus groups and wide-ranging, scientifically conducted surveys, is: “What?!”...
01.02.2020 Columns Gimme Shelter: Word play in the world of 2019 With a look back at 2019 slipping over the horizon as a smoking pile of bad rubbish (good riddance), let’s turn our attention to the sunlit uplands of 2020...