About

All Things Linguistic is a daily linguistics blog by Gretchen McCulloch. I started this blog when I was a linguistics grad student at McGill University, but now I write about linguistics for a general audience full-time. I got into linguistics at an early age through pop linguistics myself, and it’s a delight to be able to create the kinds of resources that my younger self would have loved. 

I write pop linguistics articles for various places and I’m the author of BECAUSE INTERNET, a book about internet language which came out on July 23 with Riverhead (Penguin). I also cohost Lingthusiasm, a podcast that’s enthusiastic about linguistics, with Lauren Gawne of the blog Superlinguo.

How to get more linguistics in your life: 

• Follow All Things Linguistic via rss, tumblr, twitter, facebook, or instagram
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• Gretchen McCulloch author page at Wired
• Mostly but not entirely linguistic thoughts at unpredictable intervals on my personal twitter.

Have a question? Try the FAQ. Want to know more about me? Try my personal website.

I add to the categories on the left on a regular basis, notably: 

• Top Posts - Not sure where to begin with my archives? Start here!
• Intro linguistics - resources for teaching yourself linguistics or for sharing with a linguistics class you’re teaching.
• Protolinguist - I’ve been interested in linguistics since age 13, and I wrote this series to help other people who are interested in linguistics at an early age
• More specific topics can generally be found by tag, such as all the subfields of linguistics, wugs, IPA, ambiguity, and so on.
• Internet Language - including but not limited to: the grammar of doge, names for Benedict Cumberbatch, punctuation while texting, “because reasons”, “I can’t even”, lol and omg as discourse particles, LOLspeak, fandom pairing names, emoticons, and keysmash. 
• Linguistics Jobs - an ongoing series about what types of jobs you can do with a linguistics background. My own advice posts: Linguistics + X, grad school advice, advice for writing pop linguistics articles and differences between teaching versus pop linguistics, and even other pop science.
• Linguist Humour - literal hundreds of linguistics memes, comics, gifs, videos, terrible puns, etc. You’ve been warned.
• There are a few topics I’m particularly fond of, including linguistics baked goods, linguistics handcrafts, linguistics costumes, awesome linguistics merch, and weird linguistic example sentences.

Disclaimer: I occasionally link to Amazon using an affiliate link, although only when it’s something I actually like and when I think seeing the Amazon preview/reviews would be useful anyway. Otherwise, this blog does not have a budget. If you’d like to support it, the easiest way to do that it to support my podcast on Patreon.