This is a blog about language.My sister compelled me to make it. E-mail me.Tumblr (3.0; @iloveadverbs)http://iloveadverbs.tumblr.com/Following the death of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founder of the Special Olympics, Slate this week...http://iloveadverbs.tumblr.com/post/164340752http://iloveadverbs.tumblr.com/post/164340752Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:17:00 +0100I recently received an invitation to my brother’s wedding. Included in the information about...http://iloveadverbs.tumblr.com/post/144634693http://iloveadverbs.tumblr.com/post/144634693Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:08:59 +0100There are various ways that languages can come to have the same or similar words. Sometimes...http://iloveadverbs.tumblr.com/post/142911795http://iloveadverbs.tumblr.com/post/142911795Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:32:00 +0100Much linguistic study is synchronic, looking at language at a particular point in time. Diachronic...http://iloveadverbs.tumblr.com/post/140108160http://iloveadverbs.tumblr.com/post/140108160Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:07:55 +0100The BBC had an article last week about the Human Speechome Project, an endeavour in which a large...http://iloveadverbs.tumblr.com/post/138493206http://iloveadverbs.tumblr.com/post/138493206Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:17:50 +0100A linguistics appropriate poem: A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it...http://iloveadverbs.tumblr.com/post/135832269http://iloveadverbs.tumblr.com/post/135832269Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:23:11 +0100 Astute readers might have noticed that, fitting with the ‘iloveadverbs’ URL (chosen by...http://iloveadverbs.tumblr.com/post/134028803http://iloveadverbs.tumblr.com/post/134028803Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:55:00 +0100 Not only do neologisms arise all the time in everyday language, but words are also consciously...http://iloveadverbs.tumblr.com/post/131607760http://iloveadverbs.tumblr.com/post/131607760Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:13:52 +0100A friend sent me an etymological question last week. ‘I was wondering today. If you blend...http://iloveadverbs.tumblr.com/post/129876284http://iloveadverbs.tumblr.com/post/129876284Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:14:00 +0100Apparently, quite a lot of people heard about the recommended discontinuation of the ‘i before...http://iloveadverbs.tumblr.com/post/128208862http://iloveadverbs.tumblr.com/post/128208862Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:40:00 +0100From ‘Schools to rethink “i before e”’ published on the BBC...http://iloveadverbs.tumblr.com/post/127488744http://iloveadverbs.tumblr.com/post/127488744Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:41:48 +0100Speakers often leave out words or phrases that have already been used in the same sentence or a...http://iloveadverbs.tumblr.com/post/126026537http://iloveadverbs.tumblr.com/post/126026537Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:41:00 +0100On my way home the other day I spotted an adolescent girl wearing a T-shirt printed with the...http://iloveadverbs.tumblr.com/post/123449305http://iloveadverbs.tumblr.com/post/123449305Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:04:00 +0100I am currently visiting my parents in Maryland, and came across this cartoon in the local paper the...http://iloveadverbs.tumblr.com/post/64292683http://iloveadverbs.tumblr.com/post/64292683Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:37:00 +0000My friend A has kindly been scouting out linguistically interesting signs for me. He recently sent...http://iloveadverbs.tumblr.com/post/62124144http://iloveadverbs.tumblr.com/post/62124144Sun, 30 Nov 2008 12:25:00 +0000Facebook wants to know: ‘Do you speak English (UK)?’. I assume it’s asking me...http://iloveadverbs.tumblr.com/post/61186691http://iloveadverbs.tumblr.com/post/61186691Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:11:00 +0000I recently came across this cartoon while reading The New Yorker online. It depicts a woman going...http://iloveadverbs.tumblr.com/post/60754134http://iloveadverbs.tumblr.com/post/60754134Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:56:00 +0000The New York Times today reviews Alphabet Juice, a frolic by Roy Blount Jr. One bit of the...http://iloveadverbs.tumblr.com/post/59944272http://iloveadverbs.tumblr.com/post/59944272Sun, 16 Nov 2008 11:42:00 +0000Variations in the structure of a word can lead to ambiguity. For instance, unbuttonable has two...http://iloveadverbs.tumblr.com/post/59483575http://iloveadverbs.tumblr.com/post/59483575Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:12:00 +0000Not long ago, my friend H sent me the following message: ‘You know the expression “I...http://iloveadverbs.tumblr.com/post/58527492http://iloveadverbs.tumblr.com/post/58527492Sun, 09 Nov 2008 13:59:00 +0000