

I created this site because I am a long time fan of languages and of silly jokes, so I put them together to make Silly Linguistics. If you have a love of languages and like life on the silly side, stick around, there is plenty of silly (and some fun language stuff) to go around

We here at Silly Linguistics love languages and love talking about them. We decided there needed to be a place writers that love languages can share their stories with the world. So we created the Silly Linguistics Magazine.
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Here are some highlights of the Silly Linguistics magazine
Translation and analysis of Iditguovssu (Dawn Light), a song in Northern SamiMe, myself and I – An exploration of a weird phenomenon in Modern English
An overview of Northern Sami
Untranslateable?
History of “-y” in English
An exploration of the past tense of ‘yeet’
When Writing Gets Hard: The Bilingual Problem
Examine the rationale and effectiveness of attempts in the late 17th and 18th century to rectify the English language
What “yes” and “no” can tell us about how people think
How many languages are there?
Proto Language – Reconstruction and vowel Development
If you get a Complete Subscription you also get access to a special publication called Language Lovers Loot where we give linguistics lessons, language learning tips and each volume comes with a chart showing how a specific group of words are related. Find out how “head” and “cape” are related.
We work with writers to put out new language lessons and Language Lovers Loot often. When new ones are released, your subscription will allow you to get them straight away.
Getting a subscription is also a great way to support our endeavours here at Silly Linguistics. If we can grow the business we can offer you guys even more cool stuff.
Download the 10th issue for free and see if you like it. A subscription to the magazine will get you access to all the issues and you can get the latest issue when it comes out right here at sillylinguistics.com
Silly Linguistics Issue #10 March 2019

Issue #24 – May 2020
S is for … Speed
By Chris Davy
Diary of a Student Teacher
By Giulia Raus
Check ‘Ya Necks!
By Tiffany Marcum
The Grammar Police
By Victor Carreão
The Legal Person: Part 2
By David Wells
Can a new language change your perspective?
By Dewni Pathegama
Neutralizing Gender
By Gil Cohen
Language Racism
By Stefano Nunes
Linguistic Diversity in France: a Very Short History
By Emma Tolmie
Down Among the Dampwinkels
By Emmeline Burdett
Structures of Hypocorism in French: Terms of Endearment and Pet Names.
By Valentin Pradelou
Dispatches from Linguists: French Lessons.
By Aisla McArthur
What’s Your Pronoun?: A Review
By Holly Gustafson
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Issue #23 – April 2020
S is for … Stress
By Chris Davy
Defensoras del gallego: an interview with Galician native speakers
By Emily Pye
False Friends: Other People Have Them Too
By Ashleigh Hume
It means…I don’t know how to explain it
By Ava Wu
Miranda and the Macho Man
By Emma Tolmie
Cases of funny code-switching
By Valentin Pradelou
The Linguistic Image of the World – Do Languages Change Us, or Us Them?
By Aleksandra Kowalczyk
How are loanwords adjusted to modern Czech
By Dina Stanković
Polynesian Languages
By Etienne Eunson
The Legal Person: Part 1
By David Wells
Irish Words Used in English
By Eoghan Lyng
Excuse my French!
By Sophia John
Dispatches from Linguists: Talking Turkish
By Amy Idem
The Grammarians: A Review
By Holly Gustafson
How Languages Are Learned: A Review
By Inés de la Viña

Issue #22 – March 2020
S is for … Speed
By Chris Davy
How Does One Say X?
By Gil Cohen
The Language of Food
By Sophia Danielsson
What’s In A Name
By Aoife Bennett
Practical Applications for Elfspeak
By Sara Mercik
Diary of a Student Teacher
By Giulia Raus
The Dream of a Hellenized International Language
By Alexandros Sainidis
“I don’t understand your English, what talking you?”
By Kristel Ho
Animal Kingdom Mimicry
By Tiffany Marcum
Diatopic variations in languages, or why learning the standard just isn’t going to cut it
By Pablo Collu
English and the Synonym – A Love Story
By Molly Woolfe
Long live Erasmus+!
By Emmeline Burdett
Pseudo Anglicisms, or ‘relooking the dressman’
By Emma Tolmie
Dispatches from Linguists: The Pitfalls of Pronunciation.
By Moiken Jessen
Between You & Me: A Review
By Holly Gustafson

Issue #21 – February 2020
S is for…Sound of your own voice, Love the
By Chris Davy
I’d Like to Say a Few Words
By Demaris Oxman
The Idiom and the Idiot Box
By Jennifer DeLay Iacullo
How I came back to German: A short introduction
By Joe Robinson
The Bliss Of gibberish
By Stefano Nunes
Cease and Desist
By David Wells
Griko
By Angela Fiore
Welsh and Cornish: Languages of the Celtic Kingdom.
By Charlotte Slocombe
Accents and glottophobia: an example in France
Valentin Pradelou
From They to Ze – The Language of Gender Non-binary Pronouns
By Catherine Muxworthy
Diatopic variations in languages, or why learning the standard just isn’t going to cut it
By Pablo Collu
To Be and To Be – How I learned to stop worrying and went with the flow
By Cătălina Frâncu and Teodor Călinoiu
Let’s save the world, one language at a time
By Dewni Pathegama
The Secret Life of Pronouns: A Review
By Holly Gustafson

Issue #20 – January 2020
S is for … Surpass
By Chris Davy
Hebrew Revitalization
By Gill Cohen
Save a Linguist, Learn a Dialect!
By Sofia Bragaglia
Québécois French
By Camille Masson
Code-switching
By Valentin Pradelou
Bae – Not an acronym
By Rolf Weimar
How are “boon”, “ban”, “prophet” and “fame” related?
By Rolf Weimar
Cape Town South African English
By Rolf Weimar
English ch
By Rolf Weimar
How I learned to stop worrying and love writing
By Rolf Weimar