Linguist Heidi Harley is back with her fifth annual roundup of language-related jokes on "The Simpsons." Click here for the latest cromulent crop.

On the occasion of National Grammar Day, the Motivated Grammar blog debunks ten common grammar myths. (Prescriptivists, enter at your own risk!)

Acclaimed writer Zadie Smith has a fascinating article in the New York Review of Books on "many-voiced" people, including Eliza Doolittle, Barack Obama, Shakespeare, and herself. Read it here.

In Japan, the new craze among ESL students is learning English from the speeches of Barack Obama. The Wall Street Journal reports.

As part of its series on "The Future of Reading," the New York Times reports on how school librarians must now be Internet experts. Read it here.

The short-form genre of Twitter (online messages of no more than 140 characters) has truly arrived: it now has its very own style guide. The New York Times Bits blog reports.

How the word "wombat" entered the English language turns out to be a surprisingly complex story. Australian linguist David Nash tells the tale here.