Anne Curzan

Governor Whitmer on support for mifepristone, the state of marijuana research in Michigan, and Anne Curzan's new "funner" book.

If you’ve ever worked in a restaurant, you’ve most likely heard the term “86” yelled at you from the kitchen. In the restaurant industry, the term is used…

Today on Stateside, a Princeton study makes recommendations for how Michigan's new citizen commission should redraw the state's political maps for the…

Texting has become a dominant means of communication in today’s interconnected world. Some reports suggest that large swaths of Americans prefer it to…

Are there words in your vocabulary that make you wonder how they got there? We posed that question on social media and asked our listeners what strange…

We commonly use the pronouns “he” and “she” to refer to someone, but what if that person doesn’t identify as male or female?The Washington Post recently…

It’s nearly the end of the year, and we’re seeing all sorts of end-of-the-year lists, including Word of the Year.Anne Curzan is an English professor at…

Have you noticed that there are two pronunciations for the articles “a” (“uh and “ay”) and “the” (thuh and thee)?Do you pronounce the word “often” with or…

The emoji is more than just an emoticon on digital steroids.This week on That’s What They Say, host Rina Miller and University of Michigan English…

We soap things with soap and we spice things with spice, so it seems like it should be possible to marinade things in a marinade.That might not be the…