WE MOVED!

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DEAREST READERS,  THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT THROUGHOUT THE YEARS. WE WILL BE DEPARTING FROM THE FIELD OF SCIENCE NETWORK.  FIND US AT O...

Citizen Science Works!

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Earlier this month, we presented the results of the pilot phase of VerbCorner -- our citizen science project probing the nature of linguisti...

GamesWithWords is hiring

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It is exciting times at GamesWithWords.org as we settle into our new digs at Boston College. The brick-and-mortar lab now has a name: the La...

Unrealistic Scientific Optimism

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Not enough published studies replicate . There are a number of reasons for this, but one of the most difficult to address is statistical p...

VerbCorner Video

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In case you wanted to know more about our VerbCorner project. Many thanks to the two undergraduates who helped make this video.

Back online

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It's been a very busy time at GamesWithWords. I'm pleased to announce that we'll be moving to Boston College in January. The imp...
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Magic Singlish

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A number of non-native English speakers get "Singaporean" as the top guess for their native language. You can actually see that by...
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Updated results on the relationship between English dialects

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I've updated the interactive visualization of the relationships between the Englishes of the world to include a couple dozen additional ...
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Forums find GamesWithWords

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A number of forums have picked up the WhichEnglish quiz, and have produced some really intelligent and insightful conversation. I recommend ...

Handling viral traffic

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Around 4am EST on May 28, we started getting *a lot* of traffic to the website. This very quickly overloaded the server , resulting in the w...
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Which English: The Science, Part 1

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I've gotten a number of questions about the science behind our WhichEnglish quiz. Actually, I had intended to post a more detailed disc...
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Good problems to have

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GamesWithWords.org will be experiencing periodic outages as we upgrade* the server. The incredible response we've had for WhichEnglish  ...

Findings: Which English -- updated dialect chart

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I have updated the dialect chart based on the results for the first few days. Since the new version shows up automatically in the frame in  ...
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The English Grammars of the World

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It's widely observed that not everybody speaks English the same way. Depending on where you grew up, you might say y'all , you guys ...

Doing your homework

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I just finished a radio interview about birth order. Apparently not very much research goes into booking guests for radio & TV shows...