HeyJaredLingwistics
A guide to interesting words, problem words, word history, words that people get all het up about, and other aspects of language according to the author's mood and fancy.
- Indexed issues, last 90 days
- 8
- Latest publication
- Sep 21, 2026
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- Jul 19, 2026
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Chromosome: The case of the disappearing Ys (opens the original)
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Recursive: The end is nigh, (opens the original)
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<img alt="a white object on a blue background with a shadow" class="sizing-normal" height="753" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jv1k!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F
Thusly: A stupid word and I know who’s at fault (opens the original)
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<img alt="A professor writing complex formulas on a blackboard" class="sizing-normal" height="2160" src="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1758685734622-3e0a002b2f53?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJja
Epic: What isn’t these days? (opens the original)
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<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="543" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5K6E!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F66176ff0-5c29-4d3a-ac7f-301ece6f4d24_368x543.jpeg"
Autoregression: Less Freudian than it sounds (opens the original)
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<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="784" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jqfi!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffef2d81c-20ba-4d37-8e03-06c9e8f97d01_1672x784.png"
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