Silly Linguistics Magazine Issue #88 September 2025
Calling each thing by its correct name… Or rather not? By Neda Stefanović Mysterious Worlds Within Worlds: How the Sheer Number of Words in English Presents Issues for Native English Speakers By Marc Cole Punctuation Slash Conjunction How a Little Line Broke its Way into an Exclusive Word Class By Nico Hammer Blast from the […]
Silly Linguistics Magazine Issue #87 August 2025
Deus vult! The linguistic mishmash of the crusaders By Joana Atanasova Where Art Thou, “Thou”? By Nico Hammer Shout Out to this Versatile Three-Letter Word By Patricia Syner For and against the translation of “the native melody” By Neda Stefanović The Tundra Nenets language, and its origins, etymologies and the сихиртя – “Sihirtya” By Linden […]
Silly Linguistics Magazine Issue #86 July 2025
On the Shoulders of Giants: When Metaphor Isn’t Metaphor By Brandy Cross Are you feeling “melancholic” or “sanguine”? How ancient medical philosophy has left a lasting mark on Modern English By Steve the vagabond Minecraft’s Alvdalen By Patricia Syner Palum: The New Word Quenching Indonesia’s Thirst for Language By Baihaqi Hakim Mursalin Towers, floods, and […]
Silly Linguistics Magazine Issue #85 June 2025
How the French, Religion, and the Bubonic Plague Forced me to Use the Word Y’all By Brandy Cross The Death of a Language By Patricia Syner Hông Hông and Bèep Bèep: Thai’s Take on Everyday Sounds By Ferra Luengvoraphan Wrong-O-rongo By Joana Atanasova Linguistics 101 Part 7 – What is historical linguistics? By Steve the […]
Silly Linguistics Magazine Issue #84 May 2025
Larlépem le louchebem? A dive into French’s lesser known argot By Lucie Robert US Vice President J.D. Vance and Appalachian Speak By Patricia Syner Our pet’s whisperers: secrets of an interspecies communication system By Neda Stefanović Daddy? And the creepy crawlies that bear the name By Brandy Cross Tiny Words, Big Meanings: Thai Discourse Particles […]
Silly Linguistics Magazine Issue #83 April 2025
Linguistics 101 Part 6 – What is morphology? By Steve the vagabond The Voynich Manuscript From mystery to open book By Joana Atanasova Tinglish Tales: Being Bilingual in Thai and English By Ferra Luengvoraphan Whispers Between Words: The Subtle Dance of Clitics in Indonesian By Baihaqi Hakim Mursalin You can walk the walk, but can […]
