Shibboleths of social class: On the obscurity of SAT vocabulary

Posted on April 18, 2014 by Nic Subtirelu — 1 Comment

College Board, the company that designs and administers the Scholastic Achievement Test (“the SAT”, the most popular standardized test used in admissions to colleges and universities in the United States), recently announced that it would be releasing a revised form of the…

Do we talk and write about men more than women?

Posted on April 9, 2014 by Nic Subtirelu — 4 Comments

As I’ve been researching the gendered nature of bossy, I’ve gotten a lot of important feedback from fellow linguists, who have helped to strengthen the argument in favor of viewing bossy as a word that is applied to women and girls more than…

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Shibboleths of social class: On the obscurity of SAT vocabulary

Do we talk and write about men more than women?