Speculative Grammarian

The February 2025 Issue of Speculative Grammarian

The editors and publishers of Speculative Grammarian are pleased to announce that another issue of our esteemed journal is now available. This issue offers many excellent articles, including an historic “announcement” “from” the Editor-in-Chief concerning the rather foreshortened future of SpecGram, the first in a collection of minute.DU mystery.PL stories, and an exploration of matrifocal duodecimal narratology—along with the usual collection of letters from our readers, limericks and other poetry, serendipitous fieldwork, book announcements, linguistickish puzzles, announcements, and more…

The October 2024 Issue of Speculative Grammarian

The editors and publishers of Speculative Grammarian are pleased to announce that another issue of our esteemed journal is now available. This issue offers many excellent articles, including our unprecedented endorsement for president, an informative enumeration of widely-held but unsubstantiated claims, and the revelation of a fairly screwed-up potential new linguistic (non-)universal—along with the usual collection of letters from our readers, breaking news, a Linguimerick Centenary, serendipitous fieldwork, linguistickish puzzles, and more…

The July 2024 Issue of Speculative Grammarian

The editors and publishers of Speculative Grammarian are pleased to announce that another issue of our esteemed journal is now available. This issue offers many excellent articles, including an exciting announcement of a sesquidecennial refresh of our “Mad Libitum” templated linguistic humor, a compelling argument that PIE is, in fact, the only proto-language, and revealing insights into a linguistics department through the lens of recent meeting minutes—along with the usual collection of letters from our readers, insightful advice, breaking news, limericks, serendipitous fieldwork, book announcements, linguistickish puzzles—surprise! Norman Invasion!—and more…

The April 2024 Issue of Speculative Grammarian

The editors and publishers of Speculative Grammarian are pleased to announce that another issue of our esteemed journal is now available. This issue offers many exciting stories, including ways to unlock your linguistic potential, transform your pragmatic paradigm for success, c-command respect, build your vocabulary empire, codeswitch your way to prosperity, and more. Plus!—you won’t believe the shocking language rules you never knew, and you’ve never seen language fails like we have for you!

The January 2024 Issue of Speculative Grammarian

The editors and publishers of Speculative Grammarian are pleased to announce that another issue of our esteemed journal is now available. This issue offers many excellent articles, including a look into the shallowly cute yet deeply unsavory nature of a well-known “educational” children’s song; a view of the future of linguistics as seen from the past (part, the first); and an excerpt on the Effolk dialect from the not-entirely-reliable Jimmypedia—along with the usual collection of letters from our readers, breaking news, limericks, serendipitous fieldwork, book announcements, linguistickish puzzles, and more...

The October 2023 Issue of Speculative Grammarian

The editors and publishers of Speculative Grammarian are pleased to announce that another issue of our esteemed journal is now available. This issue offers many excellent articles, including some, uh, timely musings on large language models from our Editor-in-Chief, a wind-breaking... no, wait... breath-taking introduction to the explosively burgeoning field of Flatu-linguistics, and a happy little diversion for you at your next academic conference: a conference-themed treasure hunt!—along with the usual collection of letters from our readers, breaking news, limericks and other poetry, serendipitous fieldwork, linguistickish puzzles, and more...

The Native American Origins of Jack and Jill: http://bit.ly/1oLjwkM

Autodescriptive Linguistic Terms: Let us not mention apophasis.

Maxims are like lawyers who must need to see but one side of the case. —Frank Gelett Burgess

This Quarter in SpecGram—Previous Puzzle Solutions—The SpecGram Puzzle Elves™ https://bit.ly/45CZuxZ

Student Pearls—“Hers book is red” is well formed as it is used and deemed acceptable by its speakers. Speakers of English know this.

Books for Linguists: The Colorless Green Dwarf: A Tale in the Perfect Tense, by Charlotte Breathë; Vowel Heights, by Emily Breathë

A man of maxims only is like a cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head. —Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fractured French—Tout de suite: no more sugar, please

Today’s Punishment: The problem with short skirts is the upcreep.

Global English: Measles not included in Room Charge —hotel in Seoul, Korea

The Divine Future of Linguistics: A list of linguistic saints, part I: http://bit.ly/cappGQ