Selected Press

How to Read this Chart. Washington Post. August 21, 2022.

Text-messaging: ditch ‘aggressive’ full stops to start writing like a teenager. The Times. August 25, 2020.

Lots of Rich White Men Tweet like the President Now. New York Times. February 14, 2020

Two Linguists Use Their Skills to Inspect 21,739 Trump Tweets. Scientific American. September 25, 2019.

Could language be the key to detecting fake news? The Guardian. September 2, 2019.

America can thank Black Twitter for all those New Words. Quartz. September 20, 2018.

Who wrote the Trump White House ‘resistance’ letter? We asked some forensic linguists. National Post. September 6, 2018.

Feeling Litt? The Five Hotspots Driving English Forward. BBC. May 4, 2018.

R Weekly 2017-52 Christmas Review. R Weekly. December 25, 2017.

Linguists reveal the evolution of Donald Trump's tweets over time. Quartz. December 17, 2017.

Can Forensic Linguistics Pin Down the Author of a Trump Tweet? The Atlantic. December 8, 2017.

How Your Digital Style Gives You Away and How to Hide It. New Scientist. November 23, 2017.

The Closing of a Great American Dialect Project. The New Yorker. September 22, 2017.

The Shifting New England Accent. New England News Collaborative. September 7, 2017.

Trump is Making Lexicography Great Again. Boston Globe. August 10, 2017.

Was this famous Lincoln letter written by his secretary? Smithsonian. July 21, 2017.

Abraham Lincoln's Bixby Letter Mystery Finally Solved after 150 Years. Newsweek. July 20, 2017.

A Century-Old Abraham Lincoln Mystery may Finally have an Answer. Time. July 19, 2017.

Twitter is useful for many things—including (unexpectedly) for studying dialects. The Economist. July 6, 2017.

The great American word mapper. Quartz. December 15, 2016.

Whether You Say Freakin', Friggin', Or Frickin' Depends On Where You’re From. Atlas Obscura. December 15, 2016.

10,000 words ranked according their Trumpiness. Quartz. November 17, 2016.

Redefining the Modern Dictionary. Time. May 12, 2016.

Down with vs. Up For: We Have Maps. Language Log. March 29, 2016.

Does South Carolina Really Care that Donald Trump Swears. The Washington Post. February 14, 2016.

Totally Wordmapper. Language Log. January 29, 2016.

Geolexicograpy. Language Log. January 27, 2016.

Language Detectives Make the Web Less Anonymous. CBS News. August 6, 2015.

The Week in Data. FiveThirtyEight. August 2, 2015.

How fleek, faved and famo conquered America. Daily Mail. July 30, 2015.

How brand-new words are spreading across America. Quartz. July 29, 2015.

Mapping swearwords throughout the U.S. Washington Post. July 29, 2015.

Where the curses are. Language Log. July 27, 2015.

Tracking the emergence of new words across time and space. Macmillan Dictionary Blog. July 21, 2015.

Want to know how to curse like a proper American? Have a look at these maps. The Guardian. July 17, 2015.

Which Curse Words are Popular in Your State? Huffington Post. July 17, 2015

Pluto, Feathered Dinos, And Other Amazing Images Of The Week. Popular Science. July 17, 2015.

Laten we vloeken in stijl. De Morgen. July 23, 2015.

Un linguiste a cartographié les insultes les plus utilisées aux États-Unis. Slate France. July 17, 2015.

Do You Live in a Fuck State or a Shit State? Mother Jones. July 17, 2015.

Language Quiz: Are You On Fleek. New York Times. February 22, 2015.

How your dude is another man's buddy. Daily Mail. December 28, 2014.

The heart of dudeness. Big Think: Strange Maps. December 24, 2014.

The dude map: How Americans refer to their bros. Quartz. December 23, 2014.

Things That Make You Go "Um". The Atlantic. November 17, 2014.

Alumnus Profile. Simon Fraser University, Faculty of Arts and Social Science News. September 19, 2014.

Um, here’s an, uh, map that shows where Americans use “um” vs. “uh”. Quartz. September 15, 2014.

UM / UH geography. Language Log. August 13, 2014.

Bitcoin Creator ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’ Unmasked–Again? Wall Street Journal, April 16, 2014.

The Linguistic Verdict: Dorian is Probably not Satoshi. Financial Times, April 16, 2014.

Another Father of Bitcoin? Slate, April 16, 2014.

Nick Szabo May Be Bitcoin Creator. The Daily Beast, April 16, 2014.

Biggest ever linguistic survey on Twitter could find the next 'selfie' or 'twerk'. Phys.org, March 4, 2014.

Linguistic researchers begin hunt for the next 'Selfie'. The Daily Telegraph, March 3, 2014.

The "Twitter detectives" who track down trolls and killers online. Yahoo News, August 28, 2013.

Digital Detectives: Solving crimes through Twitter. The Daily Telegraph, July 24, 2013.