Linguistic Wonders Series

YourDictionary.com is the Web's most authoritative language resource because it is actively supported by a participating Advisory Council of Experts (ACE). Our ACE is composed of some of the world's most illustrious linguists from leading universities around the world. All these scholars hold a Ph.D. in linguistics and have distinguished themselves by a significant body of published scientific research on language. This section of our library is devoted to short pieces about remarkable aspects of language written by these visionary scientists on topics that fascinate them and are sure to fascinate you, too.

John Algeo, Professor of English Emeritus, University of Georgia
Mauve the Manifest
Mullet the Mysterious

Philip Baldi, Professor of Classics, Pennsylvania State University
Words on Word Histories (A Continuing Series)
Words Growing In Your Garden

Christopher Ehret, Professor of African Linguistics, U.C.L.A.
How "Cotton" Came to Harlem

Dan Everett, Professor of African Linguistics, U.C.L.A.
From Threatened Languages to Threatened Lives

Martin Maiden, Professor of Romance Languages, Oxford University
Pizza is a German(ic) Word!
Italian Strings for Dinner
A Diet of Worms and Butterflies

John Robertson, Professor of Linguistics, Brigham Young University
Children and Other Small Things
Of Oxen and Oxes
Mayan Spelling and English?

John Whitman, Associate Professor of Japanese, Cornell University
Chit-Chat among Japanese Farm Animals