S PECULATIVE  G RAMMARIAN
Volume CLIII, Number 4, March 2008

Speculative Grammarian, Vol CLIII, No 4


Lies, damned lies, and linguistics
M ANAGING
 E DITOR
Trey Jones

S ENIOR
 E DITOR
Keith Slater

E DITOR
 E MERITUS
Tim Pulju

C ONSULTING
 E DITORS
Ken Miner
Bill Spruiell

A SSOCIATE
 E DITORS
Adam Baker
Chris Brew
Madalena Cruz-Ferreira
Idan Landau
Tel Monks
Peter Racz
David J. Peterson
Major Sharpe
Freya Shipley
Mikael Thompson
Daniele Virgillito
Tom Weller

C ONTRIBUTING
 E DITORS
Kean Kaufmann
Joey Whitford

E DITORIAL
 N OSTALGIA
Aya Katz
Rob Norris
Don Reindl


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