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• The 'Pig Latins' of 11 Other Languages - Arika Okrent, Mental Floss
• How Philadelphia Acquired a Northern Accent - Univ. of Pennsylvania
• Does Language Affect Our Wealth & Health? - Ozgun Atasoy, SciAm
• Geneticists Estimate Publication Date of 'The Iliad' - Joel Shurkin
• How Human Language Could Have Evolved from Birdsong - MIT
• Software Reconstructs Extinct Languages - Philip Ball, Nature News
• Largest Home Video Collection Sparks Breakthroughs - Deb Roy, HuffPo
• Silent Reading Not So Silent to Your Brain - Scicurious, Neurotic Phys
• Babies Begin Learning Language in Womb - Pacific Lutheran University
• Well-Spoken Toddlers Get Less Frustrated - Penn State University
• 12 Letters that Didn't Make the Alphabet - M. Asher Cantrell, Mental Floss
• Language Mistakes that Show Kids Are Smart - Arika Okrent, Mental Floss
• 'Gangnam Style': A Delight for Foreign Ears - William Weir, Slate
• Elephant Learns to 'Speak Korean' - Rebecca Morelle, BBC News
• Oldest Undeciphered Writing Nearly Cracked - Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery
• 'Britishisms' Invade American English - Cordelia Hebblethwaite, BBC
• Does Music Underlie Language Acquisition? - Rice University
• Dictionary Translates Ancient Egyptian Language - John Wilford, NYT
• Tu and Twitter: The End for 'Vous' in French? - Rebecca Lawn, BBC News
• Stereotypes Evolve Like Language - Jonathan Ball, BBC News
• English Language May Have Originated in Turkey - Jonathan Ball, BBC
• Why Can't English Words Be Spelled Phonetically? - Esther Inglis, io9
• The Strange Quest for a Universal Language - Esther Inglis-Arkell, io9
• Will We Learn to Speak Animal Languages? - Natalie Wolchover, LLM
• 'And,' 'Of,' 'The' & A Fine Old English Gentleman - ABC Science
• How Names of Colors Influence Our Brain - Aatish Bhatia, Empirical Zeal
• The Shape of a Country May Influence Its Culture - Zoe Corbyn, Nature
• Politicians Talk Like High Schoolers, Literally - Meghan Daum, LA Times
• Ancient Language Discovered on Clay Tablets - David Keys, Independent
• Why Scientific Vocabulary Is So Confusing - John Timmer, Ars Technica
• Word Origins in Famous Texts Revealed - Mark Wilson, Fast Company
• Think More Clearly Using 2nd Language - Tom Jacobs, Pacific Standard
• How Did Humans Conquer the Earth? - Paul Willis, CNN Light Years
• 19 Words All Americans Should Adopt - Haley Edwards, Mental Floss
• America's Increasing Linguistic Polarization - Julie Sedivy, Discover
• True Word Origins & Verbal Urban Legends - Peter Nardi, Miller-McCune
• A Martian, a Missionary and Noam Chomsky - Tom Bartlett, Chronicle HE
• Why Germans Can't Say 'Squirrel' - Natalie Wolchover, Life's Li'l Mysteries
• Language, Music: Similar Brain Stimulation? - Lesley Lanir, Decoded Sci.
• Teen Girls Aren't, Like, as Dumb as We Thought? - Douglas Quenqua, NYT
• Easy-to-Pronounce Name Makes Person Likable? - Dave Mosher, Wired
• Are You Irresponsible? Blame Your Language - David Berreby, Big Think
• Talking Dictionaries Document Vanishing Languages - Nat'l Geographic
• Why Polish People Sound Rude When Speaking English - ESRC
• Hearing Metaphors Activates Sensory Brain Region - Emory University
• Seriously, Stop Using 'Literally' Figuratively - A. Barton Hinkle, Reason
• We May Be Unhappy, But Our Language Isn't - University of Vermont