Silly Linguistics Magazine Issue #86 July 2025 now available
July 30, 2025
Subscribers can get it here On the Shoulders of Giants: When Metaphor Isn’t MetaphorBy Brandy
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“Complaint tablet to Ea-nasir” also known as the World’s Oldest Customer Complaint in the Original Akkadian language
July 7, 2025
What do you do when you, as a customer, have a complaint about a product
The State of the Okinawan Language
July 1, 2025
By Naoki Watanabe Okinawans are the people of Okinawa (沖縄—Uchinaa in Okinawan). They have their
Beads are holier than thou
June 27, 2025
By Cameron Bunney Etymology is the study of words and their origins (and the etymology
An exploration of the past tense of ‘yeet’
June 25, 2025
By Edward Bedford The verb yeet /ji:t/1 is a neologism which seems to have been
The Viking Language and her Children
June 24, 2025
By Sveinn Ullarson VIKINGS! They came from the land of the ice and snow, from
The State of the Okinawan Language
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Beads are holier than thou
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An exploration of the past tense of ‘yeet’
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The Viking Language and her Children
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The State of the Okinawan Language
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Beads are holier than thou
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An exploration of the past tense of ‘yeet’
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The Viking Language and her Children
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