Weekly
A focused newsletter on language and linguistics, for people who ask where words come from
What an issue holds
Every week: where a word or phrase actually comes from, new linguistics research on how language works and changes, and what is happening to endangered and revived languages. For someone who asks where words come from and wants the evidence, not the folk story.
What it leaves out
Not prescriptivist grammar complaints with no linguistic basis, not folk etymology repeated without checking, not language-learning app marketing, not general AI news beyond how it touches language research itself.
Where the news comes from
Language Log, OUPblog: linguistics, ScienceDaily: language acquisition, Linguistic Society of America, Live Science.
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