Join us for an evening of etymologic mayhem, sensational syntactic investigation, and grammar gone wild with Mark Liberman, editor of Language Log, co-author of Far From the Madding Gerund, and Professor of Phonetics in Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania; Erin McKean, Senior Editor for the Oxford University Press North American Dictionary Program and Totally Weird and Wonderful Words; John McWhorter Professor of Linguistics, NPR commentator, and best-selling author of Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care; and Ben Yagoda, freelance journalist and Professor of English whose books include The Sound on the Page and If You Catch an Adjective Kill It. The evening will be moderated by Carolyn Marvin, Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School of Communication.