In the Media

• Interviewed on NPR’s The Texas Standard about modern pronoun use. Broadcast on April 22, 2021.
  
• Interviewed on NPR’s The Texas Standard about language to describe the rising power of Latinos as a voting force in Texas. Broadcast on October 29, 2018.
• Commentary, “Are Recent Events Really the Worst Ever?” on the language used to describe disasters, on The Texas Standard. Broadcast October 27, 2017.
• Interviewed on Public Radio station KERA’s show Anything You Ever Wanted to Know in Dallas, about English words with a silent b (like debt and subtle)(Starts at 15:11). Broadcast on August 18, 2017.
• Interviewed on a public radio call-in show, Houston Matters, discussing people’s strong responses to English usage and punctuation rules. Broadcast on June 21, 2017.
  
• Interviewed on Public Radio station KERA’s show Anything You Ever Wanted to Know in Dallas, about English terms for fruit and vegetable skins. (Starts at 15:05). Broadcast on January 13, 2017.
• Interviewed on NPR’s The Texas Standard about code switching in the Republican debates. Broadcast on Feb. 25, 2016.
• Article on the introduction of the gender-neutral title Mx. “That’s what zhe said: mx-ing up the language of gender,” in The Conversation. (Republished in India’s<scroll, the=”” houston=”” chronicle,=”” and=”” new=”” republic).=”” january=”” 11,=”” 2016<=”” br=””></scroll,>
• Article responding to Norway’s use of “Texas” to mean “crazy,” in The Conversation. (Republished in Quartz, the Houston Chronicle, and The New Republic). Nov. 12, 2015.
• Interviewed on NPR’s The Texas Standard about The Etymology of “Illegal Alien” Broadcast on October 26, 2015.
• Video interview by Gordon Dickson in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, “Say what? How young people ‘turnt’ the English language.” June 15, 2015.
  Accompanied by a print story, “Stay ‘on fleek:’ Keeping up with Millennial-speak,” June 16, 2015.
• Profiled in article by James Dunning in the College of Liberal Arts Newsroom, “UTA Hosts Texas Digital Humanities Conference.” March 23, 2015.
  
• Interviewed in article by Kasia Galazka and Chris Ritter on BuzzFeed, “Why Saying “Like” And “Um” All The Time Is Not Actually All That Bad.” Feb. 2, 2015.
• Quoted in article by Daniel B. Wood in The Christian Science Monitor, “Should ‘bromance’ really be in the dictionary? Merriam-Webster thinks so.” Aug. 25, 2011.
• Contributor to a ProfHacker column by Natalie Houston in the Chronicle of Higher Education, “Notes from THATCamp Texas 2011.” April 25, 2011.
• Interviewed in article by John Austin in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, “Seeming gaffe by Sarah Palin exposes the plasticity of words.” Jul 27, 2010.
• Interviewed in article by Susan Gregg Gilmore in the Los Angeles Times. “When the Missing Article Seems Less Than Genuine.” April 16, 2001.