Stepping inside the Franklin School these days is like walking into a surround-sound of onomatopoeia! Buzzing, clanging, banging, and whooshing envelop us as we finish base-building work and the final…
“Language is going to change whether you like it or not. So you might as well like it.” — Helen Zaltzman, host of the linguistics podcast The Allusionist At Planet…
Planet Word was founded in our nation’s capital on purpose. Where else should a national museum of words and language be located? Our nation was built on words, on the…
When we started planning Planet Word, since no one had ever visited a word museum, people had lots of assumptions about what it would be like. One of the most-often…
These are difficult days for our planet. All across the world, in hundreds of different languages, people are expressing their fears about the coronavirus, collaborating to limit its impact, and…
Imagine this: you’re standing in front of a massive wall of a thousand English words. It climbs 20 feet to the ceiling and stretches 40 feet across the room. Along…