The following is a guest blog post written by Dr. Charlotte Vaughn and Hannah Mechtenberg. In this guest blog, we’re delighted to introduce you to the Language Science Station,…
My favorite gift to newborns is, you guessed it, a book, but one that I especially like to give (along with Pat the Bunny!) is any edition of Mother Goose…
In just a few days, “It’s gonna be May.” If you frequent social media, you have most likely seen this classic meme welcoming the start of May. The meme depicts…
Despite the obvious challenges, we went ahead and opened Planet Word in the “midst” of the COVID-19 pandemic. (I almost wrote “middle,” but that would imply that we had a…
In the lead-up to the U.S. presidential elections of 2020, it seemed like word usage and language were always in the news. What perfect timing for launching a museum of…
Can linguistics help predict a war? This past weekend, Planet Word Advisor James Pennebaker and his colleagues Ryan Boyd and Ashwini Ashokkumar posted a short article on their blog, Wordwatchers,…