The Word's Worth

Starting Anew or Again or Freshly Baked 03.02.2023 8:54 ↓

A few thoughts on new being old or next or just the same old thing over and over again.

Mark My Words: How to Remember and Forget 26.12.2022 8:36 ↓

How to remember and how to forget are good skills to have whatever your language.

Mark My Words: How to Remember and Forget [old] 23.12.2022 8:03 ↓

How to remember and how to forget are good skills to have whatever your language.

The Hopeless Quest for Language Purity 16.12.2022 9:20 ↓

Russian legislators keep making laws to keep Russian pure. It's not working.

Words of the Year 2022 09.12.2022 9:56 ↓

The annual Words of the Year compendium is dark, bleak and brutal.

Angry? Join the Zoo 02.12.2022 8:54 ↓

Fierce, furious and furry - that's you when you're mad.

Get Russian-Ready for Seasons Greetings 25.11.2022 9:41 ↓

Take two little words - хлеб (bread) and соль (salt) - put them together and get something grand.

Russian Pandemonium Pop Quiz 18.11.2022 10:56 ↓

How do you say chaos in Russian? Let me count the ways.

The New Russian Revolutionary Language 11.11.2022 13:23 ↓

NewSpeak, new letters and a new level of crude language used by the Russian elite.

To Err is Human in Every Language 20.10.2022 8:51 ↓

The fine art of admitting your mistakes in Russian.

Why is There a Dog in Your Email? 18.10.2022 10:17 ↓

From the annals of punctuation and typographical history.

Гойда! They Shouted. Say What? 07.10.2022 9:56 ↓

What were they shouting on Red Square and should we worry?

Newspeak for the Russian New Economic Policy 01.10.2022 10:20 ↓

Happy talk in Russian media sources. "Negative growth" and lots of "stability."

Newspeak in the New Russia 16.09.2022 9:52 ↓

What they say and what they mean are two very different things.

Good King... Who? 09.09.2022 7:36 ↓

Why did King Charles III get a different name in Russian?

What's In a (Dog's) Name? 02.09.2022 8:10 ↓

If you had a Russian dog or a dog in Russia, what would you name it? The fascinating world of Russian dog names, old and new.

Take That, You Confusing Preposition! 26.08.2022 10:32 ↓

The preposition "на" is the super glue of Russian sentences.

Annoying Russian Questions 19.08.2022 8:54 ↓

Russians get tired of answering "how are you?" So they get creative. And sometimes snarky.

All the World in One Russian Word 11.08.2022 10:06 ↓

When the first step is the hardest — also evil, clever, daring, wild, turbulent, smart, artistic, and jaunty.

Warning: Do Not Say This in Russian 05.08.2022 9:48 ↓

When language changes we don't like it. But language doesn't care. And neither do speakers!

Chowing Down the Russian Way 05.08.2022 10:10 ↓

Judging by the language, eating the Russian way means really digging in.

The Russian Sedentary Diet 22.07.2022 9:42 ↓

Losing weight the Russian way involves sitting - what could be better?

The Art of Russian Mumbling, Grumbling, and Babbling 15.07.2022 9:40 ↓

Everyone needs to know how to grumble, lisp, burble, gurgle, growl and bellyache.

Stop In, Go Behind and Lose Your Mind 08.07.2022 9:38 ↓

How you can go around the corner, go crazy, pop in and like something with just one Russian verb.

Getting Stronger Every Day in Every Way 01.07.2022 9:20 ↓

Here's a little something to keep your strength up in dark times.