American Dialect News Today

"It is the people that distinguish one company from another."

Inspired by Canadian science fiction author and journalist Cory Doctorow, the BetaKit Podcast articulates all the ways we find the internet getting worse.

Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter (now X) aren’t what they used to be. Some of those social media platforms have changed beyond recognition…

It’s Friday, so its time to kick back and check out the third “Worst in Show” awards by iFixit!

The popular Hulu show "The Bear," about a Chicago chef trying to turn a sandwich place into an upscale restaurant, revived an ethnic slur.

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The University of Kentucky Office of Nationally Competitive Awards has announced that four students have been offered Fulbright U.S. Student Program scholarships to travel abroad to teach, study or pursue research for the 2023-24 academic year.

Rampant Ussification

Allan Metcalf ’61 — linguist, dialectologist and professor of English and Journalism — passed away earlier this year on February 24. Friends and family remembered Metcalf as kind, open-minded, passionate and accomplished, with a life-long love of words. 

We're using new geopolitical and military terms — and resurrecting and revising old ones — to discuss Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a conflict in which information is treated as another battlefield.