Thanks to @newsdiffs for keeping track of Yvonne Brill's disappearing beef stroganoff:  http://www.newsdiffs.org/diff/192021/192137/www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/science/space/yvonne-brill-rocket-scientist-dies-at-88.html … (cc @sulliview)

Relying on Urban Dictionary in court cases is a terrible idea, say slang experts Tom Dalzell and @jessesheidlower.  http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/business/media/urban-dictionary-finds-a-place-in-the-courtroom.html …

On  http://Match.com , 55% of men judge mates on their grammar, and 69% of women do. Only "teeth" more important.  http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/02/04/singles-dating-attraction-facebook/1878265/ …

New blog, @nprcodeswitch: "Linguists would probably quibble with our definition [of codeswitching]"  http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2013/04/08/176064688/how-code-switching-explains-the-world … Nah, we straight.

My recap of the @americandialect Word of the Year vote, won by #hashtag (now with video!  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnYt3kZP3AU …):  http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/tag-youre-it-hashtag-wins-as-2012-word-of-the-year/ … #woty12

Ladies and gentlemen, the very first use of the word "hashtag" on Twitter, from @stoweboyd on Aug. 25, 2007:  https://twitter.com/stoweboyd/status/226570552 …

Officious editor inserts relative pronoun into Joyce quote, spoils 10,000 silver €10 coins. From @nydnbooks:  http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/pageviews/2013/04/central-bank-of-ireland-misquotes-james-joyce-on-freshly-minted-coin …

Physicists say language "cools," but linguists give paper the cold shoulder. My latest @bostonglobe column:  http://b.globe.com/coolingbz 

My thoughts on the "phablet" backlash (quoting @mims @fmanjoo @kconnormartin @fritinancy @lanegreene @ian_ttv et al):  http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/the-not-so-fabulous-phablet/ …

Here's the audio of my @npr @morningedition appearance talking about notable words of 2012.  http://www.npr.org/2012/12/28/167719016/lets-double-down-on-a-superstorm-of-malarkey-picking-2012s-word-of-the-year … #woty12

Besides the Pope, who speaks Latin? My new @bostonglobe column is on the "living Latin" movement:  http://b.globe.com/latinbz 

For my @visualthesaurus Word Routes column, a wrap-up of how "hashtag" won as @americandialect Word of the Year  http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/tag-youre-it-hashtag-wins-as-2012-word-of-the-year … #woty12

The anagrams don't look promising for POPE FRANCIS I: PIC IS PROFANE, PACIFIES PORN, NIPPER FIASCO, I FACE P-PRISON...

Oh, the excitement. @theatlanticwire: "The Final Countdown to the Word of the Year Is Here."  http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2013/01/final-countdown-word-year-here/60595/ … #woty12 #lsa2013 #ads2013

This read is far from a fail: @henryhitchings on why nominalizations rankle:  http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/30/those-irritating-verbs-as-nouns/ …

Facebook Graph Search is a center-embedding whiz, easily parses "People who people who people who Mark Zuckerberg follows follow follow."

Another thorough takedown of Pagel et al.'s "ultraconserved words" paper:  http://geocurrents.info/cultural-geography/linguistic-geography/do-ultraconserved-words-reveal-linguistic-macro-families … See also:  http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4612 

I was on @cbcradioq this morning talking about the ascent of the #hashtag. Audio here (starting at ~54 min):  http://www.cbc.ca/player/AudioMobile/Q/ID/2360421214/ …

#GrammarDay draws near / Please submit your best haikus / So I can judge 'em.  http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/the-return-of-the-grammar-haiku-contest/ …

My take on Obama's inaugural address, from rhetorical pronouns to grammatical nitpickery:  http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/obamas-second-inaugural-behind-the-words/ …