[This use of] hey is basically a synonym for hi– a friendly greeting. Until fairly recently, it was was confined to the American South.
It’s not quite the end of January, so I think we can allow one last Words of the Year link. Here’s a selection from dictionary.com.
Oxford Dictionaries have come under fire for alleged sexist stereotyping in the examples of one of their dictionaries (not the Oxford English Dictionary as some reported). Here is Deborah Cameron’s take on the story.
What would the doctor prescribe?
Today sees the welcome return of The Economist‘s “Johnson” column to the print magazine. But which side would the great man have been on in the war between descriptivists and prescriptivists?
A new scheme has been launched in Scotland which helps elderly and vulnerable adults battle dementia by learning foreign languages.
These fascinating maps aren’t new, but I hadn’t seen them before so perhaps you haven’t either.