In the News (Classic)
GLM In the News: A Selection
The Global Language Monitor is used as a media source for the print and electronic media around the globe.
Typically, hundreds of news articles around the world incorporate GLM research, findings and statistics every month.
These are some of our favorites.
(To see some of our favorite GLM clips on television, go here.)
Stevenson Swanson (Chicago Tribune) on Billary, blankie, locavore: English language gone wild
Colleen Ross (CBC) on Chinglish: Lost in Translation
Nikki Tundel (MPR) on Climate Change
RAI UNO on GLM’s Top Fashion Capitals
Ryan Smith (The Blade) on 1,000,000 words
Joe Burris (The Sun) on Four-letter Words
ZD net on the Most Confusing Acronym (SOA)
NY Times’ Safire acknowledges existence of HollyWords that GLM has been highlighting since 2004
Ben MacIntyre (London Times) on sexiness of large vocabulary
Wikipedeia: GLM citation named as Landmark in its history
Hindustan Times: Arabs ahead of the English in cyberspace?
Der Spiegel: Chinglish Die Sache mit dem ding
Washington Post’s Millionth Word Contest Results Here
Other Language Stats: Number, Top Ten, On the Internet, by Country, etc.
The Million Word March: 900,000 and Counting! Listen to Day-to-Day (NPR)
People’s Daily (China): Many Chinglish into English
The Sunday Times (London): Chinglish – It’s a word in a million
Connecticut Post:Getting the word out – for the Millionth Time
Enumerating English: Geoffrey Nunberg (NPR/Fresh Air) Can’t Count Words; Who Cares!?
Global English by Neil Reynolds: Spread the Word, English is Unstoppable
Independent News (London): Chinglish Phrases on the Rise
USAToday: Colbert’s ‘Truthiness’ Strikes a Chord
MSNBC: ‘Truthiness’ Among Top TV Buzzwords of the Year
HollyWORDS: Just Plain Bill banned in Hollywood Name Game
The New York Times: The Real Estate Bubble – The Power of Words Click Here
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