Twelve Letters That Didn't Make the Alphabet

From the folk at Mental Floss. Read the article here.

Where y'all from?

The New York Times has posted an interesting article that maps out regional differences in speech after a user answers a few questions about pronunciation and usage. it's pretty accurate and it's very interesting from a word snoot perspective. Find "How U'all, Youse and You Guys Talk" here.

The Word Snoot Mourns

NBC News reports on "uptalk," the practice of ending sentences with verbal questom marks, a practice that's become so common the article concludes "we all talk like Valley Girls now." Sigh.
Read the article here.