This is a reverse chronological listing of my posts on Lingua Franca, a blog about language and writing in academe that appeared every business day from August 2011 to December 2018 on the website of The Chronicle of Higher Education. I think it's complete. (When I wrote ‘300 Up, Still Getting It Wrong’, I thought it was post number 300, but there was a mistake in my records, and I found later that it was actually numbered 301. Ironic.) I’m very grateful to Ludwig Jaffe, who did some careful editing, checking, and reformatting of the list.

Once upon a time The Chronicle maintained a full archive of all the Lingua Franca posts, but the link now seems to be broken: it just goes to a disappointing ‘Oops!’ page. Access to everything I have written for The Chronicle can in principle still be had by using their search function, but there is a paywall preventing non-subscribers from accessing any more than a stingy two articles per month.

You can always email me (pullum at gmail.com) about any of these posts, but note that their original publication forms are now frozen in the web archive of The Chronicle for all eternity: I cannot correct or alter them no matter what errors or falsehoods they might contain.

360	How Writing to Deadlines Can Hold Your Life Together	18 Dec 2018
359	How Google’s Autotype Contradicts Orwell’s Advice	13 Dec 2018
358	The Web Page That Cannot Exist	3 Dec 2018
357	A Pocket Brexicon for American Academics	26 Nov 2018
356	Blasphemy and the Strange World of Linguistic Crimes	7 Nov 2018
355	A Moment of Sympathy for the Old Fogeys and Snoots	28 Oct 2018
354	Why Linguistics Matters	24 Oct 2018
353	Sir Harold Evans Sneers at a Book He Has Not Read	15 Oct 2018
352	Pure Gold, Buried Long Ago in the Book Review Columns	11 Oct 2018
351	What’s in a Name? A Government Loses a National Referendum Over an Adjective	1 Oct 2018
350	What’s the Fastest-Growing Language in the U.S.? You’ll Never Guess	25 Sep 2018
349	Nonsense About Universal Translation, Strictly for the Gullible	20 Sep 2018
348	How the Cold, Dead Hand of John Dryden Still Perpetuates Grammar Myths	10 Sep 2018
347	Merriam-Webster, Heal Thyself!	5 Sep 2018
346	The Perennial Difficulty of Defining What ‘Descriptive’ Means in Grammar	26 Aug 2018
345	Chinese Among High-School Seniors (and in the Movies)	21 Aug 2018
344	Learning Useless English Grammar in Japan	16 Aug 2018
343	Avoiding ‘False Titles’: How Some News Publications Try Not to Sound Like News Publications	6 Aug 2018
342	The Grammar of the Adjective Is Not What’s Wrong With ‘Illegal Alien’	1 Aug 2018
341	What’s an Anti-Semite? It Depends on Which Politician You Ask	25 Jul 2018
340	Writing on Philosophy: It’s Not Rocket Science. It’s More Complicated Than That.	17 Jul 2018
339	Friendly Communication Across Supposed Language Barriers	12 Jul 2018
338	The Triumph and Tragedy of Oscar Wilde	2 Jul 2018
337	Koko Is Dead, but the Myth of Her Linguistic Skills Lives On	27 Jun 2018
336	Strunk at 100: A Centennial Not to Celebrate	20 Jun 2018
335	Another Conquest by the Language That Is Eating the World	13 Jun 2018
334	Infinitives Can Be Split: Grammar Conservatives Face the Shock	7 Jun 2018
333	Amazon’s Alexa: Not Yet as Smart as a 5-Year-Old Child	27 May 2018
332	The Israel/Palestine Dispute Is Ill-Served by Uninformed Grammar Nitpicking	20 May 2018
331	Hello, Google Duplex? No Artificially Intelligent Calls, Please	13 May 2018
330	Fish, Cheese, and Gossip: 2,000 Years of Snobbery in the Suffix ‘-Monger’	8 May 2018
329	Watergate, Weinergate, and Windrush: the Naming of Political Scandals	2 May 2018
328	Emoji Are Ruining Grasp of English, Says Dumbest Language Story of the Week	23 Apr 2018
327	Can You Explain What a Shibboleth Is?	18 Apr 2018
326	Copy Editing and Proofreading a Book: It Takes a Village	8 Apr 2018
325	The Problem with the Ban on ‘There Are’ Constructions	3 Apr 2018
324	Ambiguous Adjectives and Unqualified Lesbians	29 Mar 2018
323	The Adverb That Killed a Friendship	19 Mar 2018
322	Taleb on Pinker: Neologism and Bile	14 Mar 2018
321	Spam-Driven Pollution of Academic Communication	6 Mar 2018
320	The Fictional Possessives-With-Gerunds Rule	1 Mar 2018
319	When ‘But’ Means ‘That ... Not’	25 Feb 2018
318	No Overtime Pay for Milk-Truck Drivers (or Professors)	12 Feb 2018
317	Talking Killer Whales? Gullible Science Journalists More Likely	7 Feb 2018
316	Negative or Positive? Answer (a) or (b)	28 Jan 2018
315	Bonehead Guidance for Would-Be Novelists	23 Jan 2018
314	Punctuate, Punctuate; Punctuate!	18 Jan 2018
313	‘A Foreign Way Which Never Really Caught On’	12 Jan 2018
312	The Boy from the Isle of Man	29 Dec 2017
311	It’s the Wine Talking	19 Dec 2017
310	The Fine Line Between Errors and Dialect Differences	14 Dec 2017
309	The Man Who Hated Relativism	4 Dec 2017
308	The Unmentionable Topic of Edinburgh Weather	29 Nov 2017
307	Answering a Question with a Question	21 Nov 2017
306	The Right to Tell People What They Do Not Want to Hear	15 Nov 2017
305	Final-Preposition Terror	5 Nov 2017
304	The Ballad of Bentley and Craig	2 Nov 2017
303	BuzzFeed Has Style Too	26 Oct 2017
302	The Strange Language of Harvey Weinstein’s Denial	15 Oct 2017
301	300 Up, Stil Getting It Wrong	11 Oct 2017
300	On the Ropes at Radio London	1 Oct 2017
299	The Subtle Art of English Ethnic Slurs	28 Sep 2017
298	Unapplied Linguistics	20 Sep 2017
297	It’s Not a Litmus Test	11 Sep 2017
296	A Philosopher-Grammarian Gets Something Right	6 Sep 2017
295	Bogus Advice for Op-Ed Authors	27 Aug 2017
294	Plain Talk About Public Murder	22 Aug 2017
293	Didn’t Know I Would Really Go	17 Aug 2017
292	Robots Gossiping in a Secret Language?	7 Aug 2017
291	Back to the Real World	2 Aug 2017
290	Being a Determinative	23 Jul 2017
289	‘The Americans Have No Adverbs’	17 Jul 2017
288	The Much-Needed Gap	12 Jul 2017
287	English Grammar Day	27 Jun 2017
286	Worst Sentence Ever Seen in Academic Prose	22 Jun 2017
285	Of Cadillacs and Prairie Dogs	12 Jun 2017
284	Why Won’t They Heed Plain Facts?	4 Jun 2017
283	Dracula, Strunk, and Correct English Usage	23 May 2017
282	Being a Declarative (or Interrogative, or Imperative, or Exclamative)	14 May 2017
281	The Importance of Being a Prince	8 May 2017
280	Grammar Blunders and Journalistic Discourtesy	3 May 2017
279	The Risky Business of Deadpan Humor	23 Apr 2017
278	Adverbs and United Airlines	18 Apr 2017
277	The Many First Rules of Politics	13 Apr 2017
276	The World’s Greatest Grammarian	03 Apr 2017
275	The Team Sat in Its Hotel Drinking Its Beers	28 Mar 2017
274	A Brown Eyed Handsome Man	24 Mar 2017
273	Word-Processing Misery	13 Mar 2017
272	Data Mining for Personally Targeted Politics	8 Mar 2017
271	Once More Into the Fray, Pluto (and Ixion, Among Others)	27 Feb 2017
270	Still Looking for a Triple	21 Feb 2017
269	For Want of a Copy Editor the Sense Was Lost	16 Feb 2017
268	How Not to Teach Chinese	6 Feb 2017
267	When Two Negatives Don’t Make a Positive	2 Feb 2017
266	Recovering My Heritage	26 Jan 2017
265	Agency Style, For Your Eyes Only	17 Jan 2017
264	Decrying Dialects and Despising Speakers	11 Jan 2017
263	If Only I Could Tell You	6 Jan 2017
262	Where Are the Happiness Boys?	19 Dec 2016
261	Make American Accents Great Again	13 Dec 2016
260	For Want of an Oxford Comma	6 Dec 2016
259	Arrival: Just Say Yes	28 Nov 2016
258	The Unoriginality of Orwell’s Critique of Language	13 Nov 2016
257	Sexual-Abuse Gangs and Racism	9 Nov 2016
256	Witticisms, Plagiarism, and Language History	3 Nov 2016
255	An Ill Wind That No One Blows Good	24 Oct 2016
254	Orgies, Convoys, and Precision in Word Meanings	20 Oct 2016
253	The Internet Isn’t Changing English. Nor the Converse	10 Oct 2016
252	The Anglophone Millstone	4 Oct 2016
251	To Seek Out New Vowels...	29 Sep 2016
250	Mensiversaries	20 Sep 2016
249	A Postcard from Brno	12 Sep 2016
248	The Two Voices of Trump	6 Sep 2016
247	Foul Things of the Night	31 Aug 2016
246	Machine-to-Human Communication: Nobody Cares	22 Aug 2016
245	The Linguistics of Assassination Threats	15 Aug 2016
244	In the Phonetic Jungle	12 Aug 2016
243	Reflections on the Trivium	1 Aug 2016
242	Finger-pointing, Trouble-saving, and Pussyfooting	27 Jul 2016
241	The World’s Best Philosopher of Linguistics	17 Jul 2016
240	The Worst Form of Government	12 Jul 2016
239	Being an Auxiliary	7 Jul 2016
238	Linguification: That’s the Name of the Game	27 Jun 2016
237	A Postcard from Schleswig-Holstein	23 Jun 2016
236	Direct Objects or Lack Thereof	13 Jun 2016
235	Liars and Snakes: Plumbing New Rhetorical Depths	7 Jun 2016
234	Triciaisms	3 Jun 2016
233	Syntactic Self-Harm on St James’s Street	23 May 2016
232	‘Genderqueer’ and ‘Baconsphere’	18 May 2016
231	Grammar-Test Dispute Resolution	8 May 2016
230	Famous Women, Banknotes, and Online Abuse	3 May 2016
229	The Social Consequences of Switching to English	28 Apr 2016
228	Correct/Incorrect Grammar-Test Items	18 Apr 2016
227	Let Us Edit Your Article	13 Apr 2016
226	Being an Antecedent	3 Apr 2016
225	Being a Subjunctive	29 Mar 2016
224	Sentences I Hope Never to Use	24 Mar 2016
223	Scalia’s Linguistic Acumen	10 Mar 2016
222	Being an Interjection	1 Mar 2016
221	Leaps in the Dark: the Discourse of Brexit	24 Feb 2016
220	Polysemy and Maturity	18 Feb 2016
219	To Co-Author, or Not to Co-Author?	12 Feb 2016
218	Tricia	4 Feb 2016
217	They Will Never Forget You...	25 Jan 2016
216	The Awful Chinese Writing System	21 Jan 2016
215	Grown-Ups Deserve Better	14 Jan 2016
214	The Quiet Certainty of Antedating	5 Jan 2016
213	The Footprints of a Gigantic Hound	14 Dec 2015
212	‘People of Color’	8 Dec 2015
211	English and Its Undeserved Good Luck	3 Dec 2015
210	The Unsuitability of English	24 Nov 2015
209	A Postcard from Bilbao	16 Nov 2015
208	Prepositions as Conjunctions, Whales as Fish	9 Nov 2015
207	Only in the Right Position	4 Nov 2015
206	Evasive Passives in Texas	27 Oct 2015
205	Being a Pronoun	22 Oct 2015
204	Saying ‘the’ in German	11 Oct 2015
203	The Third Flaw in the Second Amendment	7 Oct 2015
202	Everyday Artificial Stupidity	1 Oct 2015
201	Sex and Verbs and Rock ’n’ Roll	21 Sep 2015
200	Pointless Vocabulary Diversity and Grammatical Structure	16 Sep 2015
199	Best Linguistic Jokes of the 2015 Fringe	1 Sep 2015
198	The Structure of University Names	27 Aug 2015
197	Crisis Management and Proper Usage	17 Aug 2015
196	Etymology Is Not Destiny	12 Aug 2015
195	Unspeakable Drug Names	2 Aug 2015
194	What Language Learning Cannot Be	27 Jul 2015
193	The Fringe Is Coming to Town	21 Jul 2015
192	What ‘One’ Means to a Linguist	16 Jul 2015
191	Human Resources and Thought Control	7 Jul 2015
190	Babbler Birds and Babbling Journalists	1 Jul 2015
189	Revolutionary Methodological Preliminaries	21 Jun 2015
188	36 Words	16 Jun 2015
187	Scrabbling for Words	11 Jun 2015
186	Take My Metadata	1 Jun 2015
185	An Honor and a Horror	27 May 2015
184	Competence, Performance, and Climate	17 May 2015
183	Legal and Illegal Commas	12 May 2015
182	Dumb Copy Editing Survives	7 May 2015
181	Diary of a Visiting Speaker	27 Apr 2015
180	Truly Incompetent English	22 Apr 2015
179	A Certain Closeness	12 Apr 2015
178	Passive Verbosity Again	8 Apr 2015
177	An Insult from Professor Faxman	30 Mar 2015
176	On Writing Well About Passives	26 Mar 2015
175	Swinging for His Supper	17 Mar 2015
174	Lain, the Whom of the Verb World	8 Mar 2015
173	The International Phonetic Alphabet	4 Mar 2015
172	Having a Problem With ‘Having a Problem With’	23 Feb 2015
171	Free Speech, the Rough and the Smooth	19 Feb 2015
170	Comprise Yourself	10 Feb 2015
169	‘Ongoing Plethora’? Not What It Appears	1 Feb 2015
168	Garage Sociolinguistics	28 Jan 2015
167	The Rules for Essay Exams	19 Jan 2015
166	He (or Possibly Him?) as Head	15 Jan 2015
165	Renée Zellweger as a Verb? I Don’t Think So	6 Jan 2015
164	George Curme, Orthographic Radical	14 Dec 2014
163	George Curme, 21st-Century Grammarian	10 Dec 2014
162	A Postcard from Vienna	1 Dec 2014
161	Disputing Linguistic Myths	18 Nov 2014
160	The Decline of Grammar Education	9 Nov 2014
159	Writing Instructors: Your Pain Is Felt	6 Nov 2014
158	Professor Pinker and Professor Strunk	27 Oct 2014
157	Talking About Word Aversion on TV	23 Oct 2014
156	If Not Me Then Who?	14 Oct 2014
155	Dumb Writing Advice, Part 2: Yielding to Nitwits	5 Oct 2014
154	Dumb Writing Advice, Part 1: Word Prohibitions	1 Oct 2014
153	6 Likes, Liked and Disliked	22 Sep 2014
152	Being a Subject	18 Sep 2014
151	Better Together for Whom?	9 Sep 2014
150	The Case of the Sinister Buttocks	4 Sep 2014
149	Why Well-Formed Nonsense Doesn’t Matter	27 Aug 2014
148	Computer Says B-Plus	17 Aug 2014
147	Grammatical Icing on the Political Cake	13 Aug 2014
146	Speaking Out Against Hate Speech (Or Not)	4 Aug 2014
145	Verb Agreement and Hurdling	31 Jul 2014
144	Valid Pronoun-Ambiguity Warnings	22 Jul 2014
143	The Etiology of Turgid Drivel	16 Jul 2014
142	Mandarin Myths	7 Jul 2014
141	The True Secret of Office Packing	26 Jun 2014
140	Grammatical Shades of Grey	17 Jun 2014
139	Mere W*rds	8 Jun 2014
138	New Book, Same Old Grammar-Babble	4 Jun 2014
137	The Vague Main Clause of the Second Amendment	26 May 2014
136	The Politics of Taboo Words	18 May 2014
135	Bait-and-Switch Comparisons	12 May 2014
134	Caricaturing Descriptive Grammarians	8 May 2014
133	There Was No Committee	29 Apr 2014
132	And the Other Is a Jellyfish	20 Apr 2014
131	A Postcard from Salzburg	16 Apr 2014
130	No Language for Lottie	7 Apr 2014
129	Dolphin Talk and Human Credulity	3 Apr 2014
128	Communicating with the Public	25 Mar 2014
127	Undivided by a Common Language	16 Mar 2014
126	Brevity and Attractiveness: Misreporting Linguistic Science	12 Mar 2014
125	Linguistics qua Affliction	3 Mar 2014
124	Real-Time Automated Essay Writing?	24 Feb 2014
123	Coming and Going	18 Feb 2014
122	Politeness in Refereeing Favor Requests	9 Feb 2014
121	Spot the Captain	5 Feb 2014
120	Not Cricket	27 Jan 2014
119	‘Concern Trolls,’ Passives, and Vultures	23 Jan 2014
118	Moths to the Flame of Meaning	14 Jan 2014
117	Summarize Your Thesis (One Line)	8 Jan 2014
116	Lord Quirk Drops the Ball	18 Dec 2013
115	Banning Students’ Native Dialects	9 Dec 2013
114	Google Reads Your Emails?	5 Dec 2013
113	Not Whether, but When	26 Nov 2013
112	When We Do Not Agree	17 Nov 2013
111	Lying About Writing	13 Nov 2013
110	Was It Really Oscar?	4 Nov 2013
109	Linguistic Fuel for a Political Brushfire	31 Oct 2013
108	Be Fair, Oscar	21 Oct 2013
107	The Higgs: Names Becoming Common Nouns	17 Oct 2013
106	‘The Guardian’ Opposes Zombie Rules	8 Oct 2013
105	Is the Cognitive Revolution Here Yet?	29 Sep 2013
104	Can Goofy Headlines Cost You Money?	25 Sep 2013
103	Keep Your Multilingualism to Yourself	16 Sep 2013
102	Gentler, Cuddlier Grammarians	12 Sep 2013
101	Who’d Want to Be a Dick Swiveller?	3 Sep 2013
100	From Netherlandic-German to Multilingual Sardinia	25 Aug 2013
99	Counting the Languages of the World	21 Aug 2013
98	Being Wrong to Be Right	12 Aug 2013
97	Hungarian I Am Not	8 Aug 2013
96	Is Strunk Bunk? a Game-Changing New Development	30 Jul 2013
95	The Great Fitzgerald	21 Jul 2013
94	Blowing in the Political Wind	17 Jul 2013
93	Extractor Fans, Big Brother, and the Passive	8 Jul 2013
92	A Postcard from Galicia	25 Jun 2013
91	You’re Wrong and I’m Changing the Subject	16 Jun 2013
90	A Trinity of Languages	12 Jun 2013
89	Getting In and Out (and Looked At)	3 Jun 2013
88	Machine Translation Without the Translation	30 May 2013
87	Speech Recognition vs. Language Processing	22 May 2013
86	Keyword Search, Plus a Little Magic	12 May 2013
85	Why Are We Still Waiting for Natural Language Processing?	8 May 2013
84	Being a Conjunction (slash Coordinator)	29 Apr 2013
83	We Do Not Seek to Rule	25 Apr 2013
82	King Jong-un	16 Apr 2013
81	Orwell and the Not Unblack Dog	7 Apr 2013
80	Elimination of the Fittest	3 Apr 2013
79	Fair Comment and Privileged Occasions	25 Mar 2013
78	Being an Apostrophe	21 Mar 2013
77	Quite	12 Mar 2013
76	Spurious Correlations Everywhere: The Tragedy of Big Data	3 Mar 2013
75	Predicting Prudence from Tense Marking?	27 Feb 2013
74	Being an Adverb	19 Feb 2013
73	Revision, Respect, and Etymological Cleansing	10 Feb 2013
72	Being a Preposition	4 Feb 2013
71	Humor Detection Module Not Innate	28 Jan 2013
70	The Hacks and the Hackers	20 Jan 2013
69	Being an Adjective	13 Jan 2013
68	Stopping to Consider Language Acquisition	9 Jan 2013
67	Grammar to the Rescue	19 Dec 2012
66	Shaken, Not Stirred	10 Dec 2012
65	A Rule Which Will Live in Infamy	6 Dec 2012
64	One Rule to Ring Them All	29 Nov 2012
63	Don’t Blame Your Moods on Your Language	18 Nov 2012
62	That’s Right	12 Nov 2012
61	Grammatical Relationship Counseling Needed	8 Nov 2012
60	Frankenwords	30 Oct 2012
59	Illegal Immigrants and Marine Biologists	21 Oct 2012
58	What Words to Say, What Sort of Person to Be	18 Oct 2012
57	Passive Writing at the Daily Planet	8 Oct 2012
56	More Grammar Hate Mail	4 Oct 2012
55	Not Lovecraft’s Providence	25 Sep 2012
54	Lovecraft’s Providence	16 Sep 2012
53	Organic Syntax	12 Sep 2012
52	The Planet of Chongqing	6 Sep 2012
51	Rules That Eat Your Brain	28 Aug 2012
50	Even That Would Be a Grammar	19 Aug 2012
49	You Are Software; Don’t Greet Me	15 Aug 2012
48	The Riddle of Frisney and Frarney	6 Aug 2012
47	Spelling Random Lexical Flotsam	2 Aug 2012
46	Fairies	24 Jul 2012
45	Speak Up!	15 Jul 2012
44	Away From One’s Desk	11 Jul 2012
43	‘Wall Street Journal’ Pushes Grammar Panic	2 Jul 2012
42	Remembering Alan Turing	27 Jun 2012
41	Being a Noun	19 Jun 2012
40	When Your Computer Is as Easy to Use as Your Phone	10 Jun 2012
39	More on the ‘However’ Myth	6 Jun 2012
38	The Case of the Extra Word	28 May 2012
37	Forget me, Scott Reed	23 May 2012
36	Lying About Language	14 May 2012
35	Beliefs About Grammar and Extraterrestrials	10 May 2012
34	The Quality-Length Correlation	1 May 2012
33	‘Hopefully’: Five Decades of Foolishness	22 Apr 2012
32	Not Rage So Much, but a Modicum of Fear	17 Apr 2012
31	A Great Space for Nitpicking	9 Apr 2012
30	Being a Verb	5 Apr 2012
29	The Rise and Fall of a Venomous Dispute	27 Mar 2012
28	Passives, Pandas, and Dangling Modifiers	18 Mar 2012
27	The Bad Science Reporting Effect	14 Mar 2012
26	Foreign Language Education, Part 3: Accentuating the Positive	5 Mar 2012
25	More on How to Argue for Foreign-Language Instruction	1 Mar 2012
24	How to Argue for Foreign Language Instruction	21 Feb 2012
23	Literary Judgment Marred by Dumb Grammar Myth	13 Feb 2012
22	Ferment and Befuddlement	5 Feb 2012
21	Legislating Language and Truth	1 Feb 2012
20	Normal and Formal	17 Jan 2012
19	Shock: Writer Avoids Mentioning Passive!	26 Jan 2012
18	The Year of ‘Occupy’	8 Jan 2012
17	Dogma vs. Evidence: Singular They	4 Jan 2012
16	Pronoun Agreement Out the Window?	15 Dec 2011
15	Academic Hate Mail	5 Dec 2011
14	Beware the Misles	30 Nov 2011
13	A Thanksgiving for Susie	20 Nov 2011
12	More Linguistic Slush From the Arctic	15 Nov 2011
11	I Will Never Be a Ranter	10 Nov 2011
10	Permalinks, Ensparbulation, Etc.	1 Nov 2011
9	Love Among the Participles	26 Oct 2011
8	Attack the Muffled Mendacities of the Administrative Creatures	19 Oct 2011
7	Glovens and Webinars	14 Oct 2011
6	Mistakes Are Made (But Using the Passive Isn’t One of Them)	1 Oct 2011
5	Jack Reacher Flunks Phonetics	26 Sep 2011
4	Chasing Me!	21 Sep 2011
3	Invaders from America … Not!	14 Sep 2011
2	In the Time of Declarative Sentences	8 Sep 2011
1	I Wish I’d Said That	26 Aug 2011