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Speculative Grammarian is the premier scholarly journal featuring research in the neglected field of satirical linguistics.
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SpecGram Ceasing Publication in 2025As some wit or other has pointed out, “Not only good things must come to an end.” As alluded to in the February letter from the Editor-in-Chief, Speculative Grammarian will be ceasing publication in 2025, most likely after the October issue. We’ll both be scraping the bottom of the barrel and saving the best for last as we put together the last few issues—see if you can tell which is which! Thanks for all the support over the years! —The SpecGram Editorial Board
Current Issue
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Speculative Grammarian
Volume CXCIV, Number 3
February 2025
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...
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What people are saying...
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[The SpecGram podcast] was born out of the satirical linguistics journal Speculative Grammarian and is very silly and fun. The audio quality isn’t the best but I don’t mind because it’s an excellent listen.
I love their Language Made Difficult series. That’s where they do a quiz called Lies, Damned Lies, and Linguistics, in which the host reads out three language related facts and the others have to guess which facts are true and which is false.
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Our Mission
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We have recently completed our transition from the real world to online: we have finally finished digitizing the tattered remains of our once glorious Archive, re-publishing each issue on the internet.
Our new mission is two-fold:
First, we will continue to publish the best works of satirical linguistics available anywhere—in various formats, including online publishing, audio podcasts, micro-blogging, and other social media. We are, of course, looking for submissions for upcoming issues of SpecGram.
Second, we seek to transform other satirical linguistics resources from their current dead-tree format to a more readily disseminated bit-based format. Our most recent project has been the conversion of the anthologies Lingua Pranca and Son of Lingua Pranca.
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More To Come
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I hope you enjoy your visit with us. We hope you’ll come back again soon. There are always several improvements in the works, and we always appreciate your suggestions and ideas.
—Trey Jones
Editor-in-Chief, Speculative Grammarian
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