12.28.2025 Featured Story Gimme Shelter: Endgame for English? Gather round, all tribal members of the Misanthropes, Cranks, Boors, Pedants, Malcontents, and Grouches. Please be seated. Is that everyone? Yes, you in the back, the Nitpickers, will you...
01.05.2025 Featured Story 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 Featured Story 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 Featured Story 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...
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