I haven’t done language links in a while, so I’ll share this set before it grows to an even more unwieldy size. The series is a sample of the links I share more regularly on Twitter, plus a few I haven’t. Happy reading.
A typeface made of trees.
How to make text look futuristic.
The language faculty that wasn’t.
The case for Black over African American.
A book known to the world only in translation.
Why does Britain have such bizarre place names?
Nouns that become verbs act as vivid linguistic shortcuts.
Gorillas compose happy songs that they hum during meals.
We don’t just see the world differently – we hear it differently too.
Thesis on the use of phonaesthemes (PDF) in different genres.
Analysing the somniloquies of a prolific sleep-talker.
Does bilingualism really offer cognitive benefits?
Why I stopped mispronouncing my Igbo name.
Can the Klingon language be copyrighted?
On being a white-sounding black person.
Gutenberg poetry autocomplete.
What is alphabetical order for?
Can transpire mean happen?
The island of lost words.
Surprising homonym pairs.
The enduring mystery of jawn.
The woolly origins of teddy bear.
The delightful history of -gh- in English.
The voice we hear (or don’t hear) when we read.
A challenge to the AP Stylebook editors.
Flags from future grammar wars.
An Australian Kriol explainer.
Emily Dickinson Lexicon.
An alcohol language corpus.
The truth about speed-reading.
Linguistic analysis of Twin Peaks dialogue.
How to make anyone (appear to) say anything.
Conjunction or preposition? The grammar of than.
Beyoncé’s use of African American English in ‘Formation’.
Using neural networks to analyse 50k fonts and create new ones.
Euphemisms and weird interjections in The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
Has wondering when become a thing became a thing become a thing?
Anatoly Liberman: hunting unknown etymologies.
Happy fifth birthday, Superlinguo.
Farewell and thanks, Bookslut.
Is none singular or plural?
Sentence first 
I always love your link love posts!
Thank you, Jane! I’ll try not to wait so long till the next one.
Will revisit this page and read more of the linked posts. Thank you
You’re welcome. I hope you enjoy them.
The BBC post on weird names in Great Britain didn’t mention my favorite, Roseberry Topping (a hill in Yorkshire). Believe it or not, Roseberry is from Wodensbeorg ‘Woden/Odin’s mountain’, very thoroughly disguised.
That’s quite a disguise – I’d never have guessed. I’ve always loved weird place names. As a child I would scan maps for strange terms, and I still do sometimes.
On the West Coast, Express Lines are for customers with Fewer than 12 times; on the East, it’s Less. I didn’t have any more than six or seven avocados in my basket anymore. I went back home and binged on them. And then there was…And then there were…
I’ll be looking at the fewer vs. less problem in a future post.
Bring it on. :)
As if I didn’t have enough reasons to procrastinate already!
I know the feeling!
Les Waas, the temporary president of the Procrastinator’s Club of America (in more than 50 years they never got around to holding elections) finally ended his last procrastination on April 19 by dying at age 94. He was also my wife’s cousin and the composer of the Mr. Softee jingle, used by ice cream trucks in NYC, 15 U.S. states, and China.
I hadn’t heard. Ninety-four is a fine age to reach.
The Link Love posts are always a welcome reason to swell my open tab count.
Glad to hear it, Dan.