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.

ONE LITTLE WORD, a world of happiness • Could the secret of happiness in Scandinavia lie in a single word?

Dog-eat-dog linguistics

IF THERE’S A WILL, THERE’S A... WISH? • GRAMMATICALIZATION AND PAST FUTURE IN ENGLISH AND SERBIAN

Initial consonant mutations in modern Irish, a question of point of view? • Part 1 - Phonology

THE Sinhala SCRIPT AN ARTFORM

The Komi-Zyrian language, The Talking Golden Idol, and other languages in the Ural Mountains • In this article, I discuss the Komi language of the Northern Ural mountains, the legend of the talking golden idol or goddess Zolotaya Baba (including some artwork depicting this goddess), followed by a little information and words for “sun” and “moon” in some other languages around the Ural Mountains.