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We here at Silly Linguistics love language and linguistics and want to share it with the world. Have you ever wondered why English spelling is so weird? Have you ever wondered where words come from? Well, in this magazine we cover all this and more. We talk to linguists and ask them all sorts of interesting questions about language. We talk to language lovers and talk to them about their highs and lows of language learning.
We discuss etymology and where words come from. We look at the social impact of words and how words shape the world around us. Languages are fundamentally human and they touch all parts of our lives. We seek to explore how language shapes our lives and the world around us. How do different groups use language and what can that teach us about being human. Discover all this and more in our magazine Silly Linguistics
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A sample list of articles in our magazine
The Best of the World’s Untranslatable Words
The Big DON’Ts of Language Learning: Don’t Look for ONE method
Etymology and Cardi B
Shakespeare Said: The Words & Phrases Attributed to William Shakespeare
Mama mia
Reclaiming Scots as slang
“Mum, I Missed the Plane!” and Other Translations of Film Titles
Ancient antagonists: how our ancestors cursed at each other. Part two — the Romans
Occitan misrepresentation: the French identity conundrum
Soothsayer
Aussie Lingo 101: Oh Naur! Dipthongs in Australian Vowels
An Etymology of the Holidays
How to read Japanese characters and why it is so hard and interesting at the same time
The Northern European link to language in Northern and Western Scotland
Braille – A Journey
Seeing and Unseeing
Ancient antagonists: how our ancestors cursed at each other. Part one — the Greeks
Xhosa in Black Panther
Was it William or Guillaume?
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