Geoffrey K. Pullum:
Posts on the Chronicle of Higher Education's Lingua Franca blog

This is a hand-maintained list of my posts on Lingua Franca, a language and writing blog at The Chronicle of Higher Education, in reverse chronological order (i.e., newest at the top). These appear at irregular intervals, roughly one per week. The Chronicle keeps an automatically maintained archive of my posts, but the page here is designed for looking up of posts by date, title, or temporal sequence. Each title is linked here to its permalink at the Chronicle’s site, where comments are open on every post (though I mostly do not read them, so email me if you want a reaction or answer from me).

34 Lying About Language   15 May 2012
33 Beliefs About Grammar and Extraterrestrials   11 May 2012
32 The Quality-Length Correlation   2 May 2012
31 ‘Hopefully’: Five Decades of Foolishness   23 April 2012
30 Not Rage So Much, but a Modicum of Fear   18 April 2012
29 A Great Space for Nitpicking   10 April 2012
28 Being a Verb   6 April 2012
27 The Rise and Fall of a Venomous Dispute   28 March 2012
26 Passives, Pandas, and Dangling Modifiers   19 March 2012
25 The Bad Science Reporting Effect   15 March 2012
24 Foreign Language Education, Part 3: Accentuating the Positive   6 March 2012
23 More on How to Argue for Foreign-Language Instruction   2 March 2012
22 How to Argue for Foreign Language Instruction   22 February 2012
21 Literary Judgment Marred by Dumb Grammar Myth   14 February 2012
20 Ferment and Befuddlement   6 February 2012
19 Legislating Language and Truth   2 February 2012
18 Normal and Formal   18 January 2012
17 Shock: Writer Avoids Mentioning Passive!   27 January 2012
16 The Year of ‘Occupy’   8 January 2012
15 Dogma vs. Evidence: Singular They   5 January 2012
14 Pronoun Agreement Out the Window?   16 December 2011
13 Academic Hate Mail   6 December 2011
12 Beware the Misles   1 December 2011
11 A Thanksgiving for Susie   21 November 2011
10 More Linguistic Slush From the Arctic   15 November 2011
9 Permalinks, Ensparbulation, Etc.   1 November 2011
8 Love Among the Participles   26 October 2011
7 Attack the Muffled Mendacities of the Administrative Creatures   19 October 2011
6 Glovens and Webinars   14 October 2011
5 Mistakes Are Made (But Using the Passive Isn't One of Them)   1 October 2011
4 Chasing Me!   21 September 2011
3 Invaders from America . . . Not!   14 September 2011
2 In the Time of Declarative Sentences   8 September 2011
1 I Wish I'd Said That   26 August 2011