Silly Linguistics | Issue 88
Calling each thing by its correct name... Or rather not?
By Neda Stefanović
Mysterious Worlds Within Worlds: How the Sheer Number of Words in English Presents Issues for Native English Speakers
By Marc Cole
Punctuation Slash Conjunction How a Little Line Broke its Way into an Exclusive Word Class
By Nico Hammer
Blast from the past: Finding the language to warn our future selves
By Joana Atanasova
Why French has a New Word for "Not
By Gregory How
What's the deal with c, k and q?
By Steve the vagabond
On Mongolic languages, the Mongolian language and ancient history
By Linden Alexander Pentecost
The Islands of the Sea: language among the first Jews in Britain
By Tova Tali
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Silly Linguistics Issue 88.