After all these years you finally have the courage and opportunity to write the email announcing that you and you alone have single handedly saved the company from utter disaster. You're excited, you type it, you spell check it, and you hit send.
ADS-L is a discussion list for members of the American Dialect Society and interested non-members. Among our members are linguists, grammarians, dictionary editors and lexicographers, writers, journalists, professors and other academics, students at all levels, researchers, librarians, translators, independent scholars, and language amateurs. Our primary topic of conversation is dialects of North American English, but we do wander off topic frequently.