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.

OF WORDS, SOUNDS AND BEASTS • LOCALISATION STRATEGIES IN THE FICTIONAL SAGAS FROM MY CHILDHOOD

Linguistics 101 Part 4 - What is phonology

THE DRIFTING CONCEPT OF SILLINESS

Why Meng also Can’t Just Chill THE SEQUEL

WORDS IN THAI THAT DON’T EXIST IN ENGLISH • AND HOW THEY EXPLAIN BEHAVIOUR

Norse & pre-Norse language around the Isle of Barra, the last Norsemen in the Hebrides, and linguistic comments, and art, relating to a mysterious dream on Barra