Silly Linguistics

We here at Silly Linguistics love language and linguistics and want to share it with the world. Have you ever wondered why English spelling was 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.

Larlépem le louchebem? A DIVE INTO FRENCH LESSER KNOWN ARGOT

US Vice President J.D. Vance and Appalachian Speak • I taught school in the region of Appalachia, West Virginia to be exact, and Appalachian Speak is a vernacular with which I am well acquainted. I saw a student change their bus note because the secretary had written “Hollow” instead of Holler.” I explained that how we write a word is not always a familiar way of pronouncing it. That we often say “holler,” but it is spelled “hollow.” Later I received a note from another student in the class that read, “The next time you are in town, give me a hollow.”

Our pets’ whispers secrets of an interspecies communication system

Daddy? And the creepy crawlies that bear the name

Tiny Words, Big Meanings THAI DISCOURSE PARTICLES UNPACKED

WHY DOESN’T YOUR PET TALK BACK

Languages in the Caucasus Mountains, and a focus on Kabardian with some etymological and other comments