Language+Artifacts


 * Examples of the types of items we will tweet about at [|Language_Today]:**

- American Dialect Society 2009 Word of Year and Word of the Decade: Tweet (2009); Google (2000-2010)

- Oxford 2009 Word of the Year: Unfriend

- [|Oxford 2008 Word of the Year]: Hypermiling

- [|Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year 2008]: Bailout

- [|Debating the Language of Texting, NCCU Campus, January 16, 2008]

- [|English Period (English only classes), Boston Globe, 9-25-08]

- [|Measure 58, English Only, The Oregonian, 9-20-08]

- [|Johnston County Sheriff Apology for Inappropriate Comments, 9-8-08]

- [|LPGA English Only Policy Draws Criticism, 8-29-08]

- [|Golf.com: LPGA's English-only policy is unsportsmanlike and un-American, 8-26-08]

- [|Yiddish Survey - How Americans use Jewish-influenced words, 8-19-08]

- [|PBS News Story “Reading Matters” (1997)] (Ebonics Controversy)