Top 10 Language Stories of 2008

[Dennis Baron]

There's a new post on the Web of Language:  Top 10 Language Stories of
2008

Everything from official English to language in the military to the
linguistic impact of technology, the economy, and the election, and of
course the decisive role of the US Supreme Court in telling us exactly
what words mean . . .


Read the year's top language news today on the Web of Language: http://illinois.edu/goto/weboflanguage


Happy New Year to all.

Dennis Baron
Professor of English and Linguistics
Department of English
University of Illinois
608 S. Wright St.
Urbana, IL 61801

office: 217-244-0568
fax: 217-333-4321

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