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Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · 9d

Issue #88 now available at sillylinguistics.com

Silly Linguistics is a magazine for language lovers

Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · Jul 16

How the French, Religion, and the Bubonic Plague Forced me to Use the Word Y'all
By Brandy Cross

The Death of a Language
By Patricia Syner

And many more interesting articles about language and linguistics available in the Silly Linguistics magazine sillyli.ng/Hk0jCk

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Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · Jul 4

Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · Jun 30

English has borrowed a lot of words from Persian

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Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · Jun 26

Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · Jun 24

Slang changes all the time. "humbug" used to be quite offensive, on par with calling something "bullshit" or "for f*ck sake"

Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · Jun 4

Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · Jun 3

Reason 10393 why English spelling is weird

Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · May 29

The origin of the word "true" in a few languages. Swedish "sann" is related to "sooth" in English "soothsayer"

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Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · May 28

The story behind names of places and countries is often very interesting

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Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · May 26

Modern English is a tranwreck between the Saxon language (and the language of the Jutes, and the Angles), the Normans and Old Norse (the language of the Vikings)

Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · May 21

English has borrowed a lot of words from Old Norse, including the word for sky

Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · May 19

Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · May 15

French gets a lot of vocabulary from the Franks (even their name) who were a Germanic tribe and its the Romance language with the most Germanic derived vocabulary

Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · May 13

Hi @irishlanguage.bsky.social, I run a website all about languages and linguistics and I really enjoyed your article. Are you interested in letting us publish your article on our website? You can also reach us at [email protected]

Thanks!

Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · May 13

Spanish and Catalan are both Romance languages and therefore share a lot of vocabulary but they are not always the same

Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · Apr 29

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Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · Mar 26

What language is this?

Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · Mar 4

Hmm. I can't think of any

Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · Feb 27

Oh, interesting. It's funny how languages borrow words but also use the differently

Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · Feb 26

Its like the breathy "wh" (w with a breath) you hear in some older speakers in words like what and where

Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · Feb 26

No worries :) I try to have a broad range of content for linguists, linguistically minded but also people who just like words

Silly Linguistics @sillylinguistics.com · Feb 25

This is just for the comic and the website. For more general language memes I have bsky.app/profile/stev...

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