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...
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...
12.29.2018 Columns Gimme Shelter: A look at the language It’s time to review how English, the language of Shakespeare, the King James Bible and Kanye West fared in 2018.
12.26.2017 Columns Gimme Shelter: Word police on patrol It’s time for Gimme Shelter’s annual report on how English — the language of Shakespeare, Emerson, Joyce and Professor Irwin Corey — fared in 2017.