Separated by a Common Language

Happy 10th blogiversary to me! (The internet tells me it's spel{led/t} with one 'g'.)

BEFORE (ISH)

I hope that it also counts as 10 happy years of Separated by a Common Language for you!

It has been and continues to be an fantastic ride.  The highlights for me have been:

• the readers and commenters. Really, it's been amazing to me how wonderful people can be on the web. You hear bad things all the time about social media, but (AmE) knock/(BrE) touch wood my experiences with it have generally been fabulous. I wrote last year with some emotion about how touched and hono(u)red I am by the generosity of spirit in the comments section. I am.
• coming to reali{s/z}e how little I knew at the start of the blog (and how little I probably know now). At that point, I'd been teaching linguistics for 15 years, lived in the UK for over six years and before that I'd lived in South Africa for four. I thought I knew a lot about English. Man, I'd just started to get acquainted with the language. And while I now feel like I'm bursting with knowledge about English, the great thing about knowledge is that you can always fit in more.
• the heaps of opportunities that the blog has opened up for me. The media stuff, the camaraderie with other 'public linguists', the new research lines and collaborations, the funding, the book-in-progress. Oh my goodness. If I weren't superstitious about making public statements about how fantastic my life presently is, I'd be making one. 

I won't try to pick my favo(u)rite blog posts from the past 10 years, since such decisions can be painful. But my favo(u)rite ones to write and reflect upon are the ones about really fine semantic differences (usually involving food) and ones about the ins and outs of interaction (try the politeness tag for some of those).

AFTER

The most visited (though the figures are only from 2010-2016, when I started using Google Analytics) are:

bed sizes 22 Jul 2012, 38 comments 72016 do you have/have you/have you got 21 May 2011, 56 comments 54703 filet, fillet and the pronunciation of other Frenc... 29 Aug 2009, 105 comments 26371 hash/pound/number sign 19 Jul 2010, 76 comments 23001 saying 'please' in restaurants 18 Aug 2012, 208 comments 21975 whoa and woah 20 Apr 2009, 47 comments 21539 the big list of vegetables 14 Aug 2008, 90 comments 19196 math(s) 17 Mar 2007, 54 comments 16401 accent attitudes 11 Jun 2011, 61 comments 9705 Nominate WotYs & Untranslatables Month II 18 Nov 2012, 95 comments

Do any of you have a favo(u)rite post that you think should have made the list? (I suspect the bed sizes one is so popular because companies selling linen(s) are always trying to spam it.)

Thank you, readers, for keeping me going and also for nominating me again for bab.la Top Language Lover awards. Should you want to vote for me (or anyone else for that matter!), here are the relevant links:

Warning: like Lynneukah, this blogiversary may last days.