When George Carlin died in June at age 71, almost every obituary cited the comedian's "Seven Words You Can Never Say on TV" routine in the first paragraph, if not the first sentence. The monologue led ...

Congratulations to the New Times reader known as A Cunning Linguist, you’ve won this week’s New Times You Write the Caption contest. On Friday, we asked readers to write the caption for the above ...

One simple definition of a linguist’s job is to research languages and figure out how they work. By doing this, the world becomes a better place through better understanding – a utopia, if you will. I ...

Brian told Ziggy that he got confused by Big Brother's cunning linguist task yesterday. The 20-year-old data entry clerk revealed that he had got confused by the challenge, admitting that he had mixed ...