Video: Do you pronounce the “h” in “uh-oh?” What about the “g” in “running?” Anne Curzan examines cases where a word’s pronunciation and its letters don’t quite correspond. Blame it on the “glottal stop.”

Time is money and love is a battlefield. This month Anne Curzan examines the common (and rather poetic) ways we use metaphors in everyday speech.

Anne Curzan tackles the subject (or is it the object?) of “who” vs. “whom.”

Anne Curzan turns her column over to graduating senior Nicholas Triantafillou this month. He details a semantic shift leaving many linguists nonplussed. Or are they?

Video: Do you like this column? Or do you like like it? Reduplication is not just jibber jabber, says Anne Curzan.

Do you balk at the speaker who says, “I have drank,” or do you celebrate the attempt to bring regularity to an irregular verb?

As you stand in the checkout line with “10 items or less,” should you inform the cashier it’s really “10 items or fewer?”

Should you pronounce the “t” in often? Linguistics expert Anne Curzan sounds it out.

Or am I well? In this video, Anne Curzan explains the difference. If there is one…