Language+Artifacts


 * Examples of the types of items we will tweet about at [|Language_Today] and discuss with regard to language, literacy, & culture:**

**Videos**
media type="youtube" key="RTt07IVDeww?version=3" height="324" width="432" Voices of NC Excerpt on African-American English

**Resources**
- //Language Diversity and the Public Interest// (pdf) by Walt Wolfram (This gives a good overview and mentions some good resources for teachers, including information on the Voices of North Carolina 8th grade curriculum, which is accessable here.)

** Words of the Year **
- [|American Dialect Society 2010 Word of the Year]: App

- [|Oxford 2010 Word of the Year]: Refudiate

- American Dialect Society 2009 Word of Year and Word of the Decade: Tweet (2009); Google (2000-2010)

- Oxford 2009 Word of the Year: Unfriend

- [|Oxford 2008 Word of the Year]: Hypermiling

- [|Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year 2008]: Bailout

** Issues, Articles, Debates, Happenings, Observations, Etc. **
- [|Romney comments irk Palestinians, July 30, 2012]

- [|University of Oxford calls for dropping the Oxford Comma, June 30, 2011]

- [|Bilingual Advantage, NYT Science, May 30, 2011]

- [|Birders Compare Regional Bird Facts, Dialects, May 2011]

- [|Why It Is Beneficial to Study a Foreign Language, Literacy News, 2010]

- [|Do Children Understand Irony? New Study Reveals They Do, Science Daily, Sept. 15, 2010]

- [|Newborns Cry in Different Languages, Science News, 2009]

- [|Debating the Language of Texting, NCCU Campus, January 16, 2008]

- [|English Period (English only classes), Boston Globe, 9-25-08]

- [|Measure 58, English Only, The Oregonian, 9-20-08]

- [|Johnston County Sheriff Apology for Inappropriate Comments, 9-8-08]

- [|LPGA English Only Policy Draws Criticism, 8-29-08]

- [|Golf.com: LPGA's English-only policy is unsportsmanlike and un-American, 8-26-08]

- [|Yiddish Survey - How Americans use Jewish-influenced words, 8-19-08]

- [|PBS News Story “Reading Matters” (1997)] (Ebonics Controversy)