r/ENGLISH

Hello

I redditrequested this sub many years ago, with a dream of making it into something useful. Then I learned that you cannot change the capitalization of a subreddit URL once it has been created, and I gave up on that dream.

I updated the sidebar to point folks to and , which are active (& actively moderated) communities that cover most topics people seem to want to post about here, and since then have only dropped by occasionally to clean up spam.

With the advent of new reddit, I believe the sidebar is no longer visible to many of you, which may account for an increase in activity here. If you are serious about using reddit, I cannot recommend highly enough that you switch to old reddit, which you can try by going to and clicking "Opt out of the redesign" near the bottom of the page. I also highly recommend using the browser plugin, which improves the interface in countless ways and adds useful features.

With this increased activity, it has come to my attention that a number of users have been making flagrantly bigoted & judgmental comments regarding others' language use or idiolect. I have banned a number of offenders; please feel free to report anything else like this that you see. This subreddit is probably never going to thrive, but that doesn't mean I have to let it become a toxic cesspit.

I really do still think most of you would be happier somewhere else, but at least for a while I will be checking in here more regularly to try to keep vaguely civil and spam-free.