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arika okrent ˈɛrɪkə ˈoʊkrɛnt skip to content search toggle arika okrent ˈɛrɪkə ˈoʊkrɛnt writing bio contact menu search for submit looking for my guide for college student voting click voteinfo arikaokrent com highly irregular why tough through and dough don t rhyme and other oddities of the english language english can be so illogical and frustrating ugh english why are you like this maybe you ve resigned yourself to the idea that all we can do is shrug that s just how it it is but there is an explanation and this book is here to help highly irregular takes on the weirdness of english with clear playfully illustrated answers to a range of questions about its quirks at the same time it s a deeper history of english and how we made it the way it is available now bookshop oxford university press amazon books in the land of invented languages was published in 2009 highly irregular was released july 2021 the weirdness of english explained now available for pre order at oup bookshop and amazon oxford university press bookshop amazon the history of the human impulse to build a better language book site with excerpts language examples and sortable lists of languages at inthelandofinventedlanguages com inthelandofinventedlanguages com amazon articles i wrote hundreds of articles you can see listed at mental floss the week and considerable com some favorites the grammar rules of 3 commonly disparaged dialects how to tell whether you ve got angst ennui or weltschmerz what does the mean can y all be used to refer to a single person 17 overly optimistic book titles the grammar of top chef what s with it eats salty is it possible to think without language how late in life can you start learning a language and still become fluent why no problem means different things to different generations articles at other places the listicle as literary form the university of chicago magazine everybody in almost every language says huh huh smithsonian magazine how you say coffee or tea depends on ancient trade routes popular science body language lapham s quarterly is linguistics a science aeon why is english spelling so weird and unpredictable aeon what happens when scientists use their own children as test subjects slate trüth beaüty and volapük public domain review videos i produced a bunch of of videos for mental floss with sean o neill that you can see on my youtube channel these are some of my favorites what causes a foreign accent why do animals make different sounds in different languages the story of the umlaut how do we know how languages are related i collaborated with julie hochgesang professor of linguistics at gallaudet university on this video about how sign languages have accents do sign languages have accents academic okrent a 2020 budding linguists and how to find them in j punske n sanders and a fountain eds language invention in linguistics pedagogy pp oxford university press okrent a 2013 artificial languages in m aronoff ed oxford bibliographies in linguistics oxfordbibliographies com okrent a 2006 disorders of sign language in k brown ed encyclopedia of language and linguistics second edition oxford elsevier shintel h nusbaum h c okrent a 2006 analog acoustic expression in speech communication journal of memory and language 55 2 167 177 okrent a 2002 a modality free notion of gesture and how it can help us with the morpheme vs gesture question in sign language linguistics in r p meier k cormier and d quinto pozos eds modality and structure in signed and spoken language pp 175 198 cambridge cambridge university press ya wanna read my dissertation have at it okrent a 2004 from meaning to words an investigation of past tense verb inflection in english comparing a form to form mapping task with a meaning to form mapping task doctoral dissertation university of chicago bio an fmri image of my actual brain arika okrent was born in chicago and became fascinated with languages at an early age she flitted from language to language in school wondering why she couldn t just settle down and commit to one until she finally discovered a field that would support and encourage her scandalous behavior linguistics after some lengthy affairs with hungarian she taught in hungary after college and american sign language she earned an m a in linguistics from gallaudet the world s only university for the deaf she began a ph d program at the university of chicago where she fell hard for psycholinguistics she first worked in a gesture research lab and later took up with a brain research lab where she conducted the experiments that would earn her a degree in 2004 by that time she had begun to spend long afternoons with the languages that even linguists think they re too good for the artificial languages losers like esperanto and klingon initial feelings of pity and revulsion gave way to fascination and affection and she embarked on a whirlwind romance with the history of invented languages the love child of this passion is her 2009 book in the land of invented languages she began writing about language for a popular audience and worked as a contributing editor at mental floss where she developed her style of smart shareable language content in 2016 she won the linguistic journalism award from the linguistic society of america she also began collaborating with illustrator sean o neill on a series of whiteboard videos about language that collaboration led to her latest book highly irregular an illustrated history of english as told through the question of why it s so weird her erdős bacon number is 11 a paper she co authored with howard nusbaum gets an erdős 8 strogatz 3 arbesman vitevitch pisoni nusbaum and a film she appeared in about conlanging with jason momoa gets her to bacon 3 she did not actually meet jason momoa but one time her urban planner dad gave kevin bacon s urban planner dad a ride so she also has a personally met bacon number 3 in 2013 she won the american copy editors society s national grammar day contest for best tweeted haiku from the announcement by mark allen arika okrent tapped into a universal feeling of realization and dread when she wrote her winning entry for the 2013 national grammar day tweeted haiku contest i am an error and i will reveal myself after you press send soon after she tweeted an amendment make that send it became a self fulfilling haiku okrent said i wish i could say i planned it that way writing bio contact open x in a new tab open instagram in a new tab 2026 proudly powered by wordpress