My "On Language" column has appeared in the Chicago Tribune since February 2004. Here are some samples of previous columns:

• Q&A: Podium and platform, bring and take
Chicago Tribune - 10/23/07
• Blogger tracks 'unnecessary' quotations
Chicago Tribune - 10/09/07
• Uh, blunders are, um, key to, um, speaking
Chicago Tribune - 08/14/07
• Australian idioms are mad as a gumtree full of galahs
Chicago Tribune - 05/04/07
• 'Fight' tells the history of language scolds
Chicago Tribune - 04/20/07
• 'Meh' does grunt work
Chicago Tribune - 04/13/07
• Q&A: Getting thrown for a loop
Chicago Tribune - 03/30/07
• The languages of love
Chicago Tribune - 02/14/07
• Eskimo vocabulary myth won't melt
Chicago Tribune - 01/17/07
• 'Paying respects': an eloquent euphemism
Chicago Tribune - 01/10/07
• Word of the year for 2006
Chicago Tribune - 12/27/06
• Books of the year for 2006
Chicago Tribune - 12/20/06
• Lessons from linguistics
Chicago Tribune - 12/13/06
• Remembering Noah Webster
Chicago Tribune - 12/06/06
• Language and Ethnicity
Chicago Tribune - 11/22/06
• Double negatives common in Old English
Chicago Tribune - 11/08/06
• 'Multifaceted' has multiple uses
Chicago Tribune - 11/01/06
• The Buzzword Dictionary
Chicago Tribune - 10/11/06
• Q&A: Begging the question
Chicago Tribune - 09/27/06
• The gravity of 'gravitas'
Chicago Tribune - 09/13/06
• Metamorphosis of 'meta'
Chicago Tribune - 08/02/06
• Do-it-yourself-dictionaries
Chicago Tribune - 07/19/06
• Frisian, language of my ancestors
Chicago Tribune - 06/07/06
• Q&A: Don't feel badly
Chicago Tribune - 05/31/06
• Impact of Cortez's conquest is still felt today in Mexico
Chicago Tribune - 04/12/06
• History of English takes strange twists and turns
Chicago Tribune - 03/08/06
• Professor pushes to get word in the OED
Chicago Tribune - 02/01/06
• New language atlas maps American speech
Chicago Tribune - 01/04/06
• Words of the year for 2005
Chicago Tribune - 12/28/05
• Books of the year for 2005
Chicago Tribune - 12/21/05
• Delectable journal 'Verbatim' thriving
Chicago Tribune - 11/16/05
• Dictionary sets a trap with invented word
Chicago Tribune - 09/21/05
• 'Lost' in translation: the real history
Chicago Tribune - 09/14/05
• Interesting, Yoda's grammar is
Chicago Tribune - 05/17/05
• Would you mind reading about indirect requests?
Chicago Tribune - 03/30/05
• The case for the singular 'they'
Chicago Tribune - 01/26/05
• Words of the year for 2004
Chicago Tribune - 12/29/04
• Books of the year for 2004
Chicago Tribune - 12/22/04
• Where did 'Windy City' really come from?
Chicago Tribune - 12/07/04
• Nicaraguan Sign Language
Chicago Tribune - 10/14/04
• The history of 'solecism'
Chicago Tribune - 08/19/04
• Blogging linguists
Chicago Tribune - 07/29/04
• Back in the day
Chicago Tribune - 06/24/04
• Wordcraft
Chicago Tribune - 05/06/04
• Word habitats
Chicago Tribune - 03/25/04
• Translating 'The Passion'
Chicago Tribune - 03/04/04

Other language essays
• The problem with 'solutions'
Martin Marty's Sightings - 12/09/04
• Apologies: 'kinda culpas'
Christianity Today online - 07/14/04
• 'Ethnic cleansing'
Christianity Today online - 06/23/04

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