Poetry Index Page 2

Below is a listing of all of the poems and songs on the SpecGram website, listed alphabetically by author.

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M Authors ^
MacNamee, Terence G.
> English on the edge Collateral Descendant
     of Lingua Pranca		 October 2009
> Language’s Revenge Lingua Pranca June 1978
 
Maho, Jouni
> There once was a man from Ascension... Speculative Grammarian CLXXV.4 April 2016
 
McAvoy, Joe
> I knew a man who lived life as a critic... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXIX.2 January 2021
 
McBastard, Butch
> The great kings of yore Vercingetorix... Speculative Grammarian CLXXVI.3 July 2016
 
McCann, Sheila
> A Fly on the Ball Speculative Grammarian CL.4 October 2005
 
McFewster, Brewster ‘Bathoil’
> If you seek to know things linguistique... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXVIII.4 November 2020
 
McMarcion, Hellbuster, IV
> The publishing game can be farcical... Speculative Grammarian CXC.3 June 2021
 
McQueen, E.M.
> Per my last email... Speculative Grammarian CXC.3 June 2021
 
Meign, P. Ublekkdeaux
> An elderly prof was once smitten... Speculative Grammarian CLXXII.4 April 2015
> A fellow named Ivan Ketchinski... Speculative Grammarian CLXVIII.3 November 2013
> A lex’cographer who’d bought a cockatoo... Speculative Grammarian CLXX.1 May 2014
> A lovelorn young student most frantic... Speculative Grammarian CLXX.2 June 2014
> Now there was a linguist named Jones... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXII.4 October 2018
> Parvus Jacobus Horner... Speculative Grammarian CLXIX.4 April 2014
> Perseverance of the Phonetics Student Speculative Grammarian CLXXX.2 December 2017
> There once was a conf’rence and in it... Speculative Grammarian CLXXI.3 November 2014
> There once was a linguist named Byrd... Speculative Grammarian CLXXVII.2 October 2016
> There was a young linguist, Ignatius... Speculative Grammarian CLXXI.2 October 2014
> There was a young prof so benighted... Speculative Grammarian CLXXV.2 February 2016
> A young lady who lived in Cape Cod... Speculative Grammarian CLXXIX.4 October 2017
> A young linguist and proud Amsterdamer... Speculative Grammarian CLXX.3 July 2014
> A young phonetician asked, “Why...” Speculative Grammarian CLXXIII.3 July 2015
 
Meign, P. Ublekkdeaux, II
> If you knew a cool dude from Typhoo... Speculative Grammarian CXC.2 May 2021
 
Merrian, Nee Ogra
> When English was younger... Speculative Grammarian CXCII.3 December 2022
 
Metalleus
> O Science Method Son of Lingua Pranca November 1979
 
Miaou, John
> Love Queries of a Linguist Speculative Grammarian CLVII.3 November 2009
 
Middle-English, M E
> Sumer Is Icumen In (Updated) Speculative Grammarian CXCIV.1 July 2024
 
Monks, Tel
> Annyeonghaseyo!... Speculative Grammarian CLXXI.2 October 2014
> I once had a girlfriend named Candy... Speculative Grammarian CLXX.4 August 2014
 

N Authors ^
na Luimní, Cailín
> The appeal of exotic linguistics... Speculative Grammarian CLXXVII.1 September 2016
> An armchair researcher quite eerie... Speculative Grammarian CLXXIV.4 December 2015
> As His Linguistness crafted some rules... Speculative Grammarian CLXXVI.3 July 2016
> Forayn accents should never be banned... Speculative Grammarian CLXXIII.4 August 2015
> I met a distinguished phonologist... Speculative Grammarian CLXVIII.4 December 2013
> In Vienna, this expat anapest... Speculative Grammarian CLXX.1 May 2014
> Ling nerds from the nearest black holes... Speculative Grammarian CLXIX.2 February 2014
> A misogynous linguist of yore... Speculative Grammarian CLXXIV.2 October 2015
> Of those born speaking English it’s said... Speculative Grammarian CLXXVII.2 October 2016
> On the day I discovered linguistics... Speculative Grammarian CLXXI.2 October 2014
> Polyglots have the cure to it all... Speculative Grammarian CLXIX.3 March 2014
> Pragmatics!? Oh dear, is that science?? Speculative Grammarian CLXIX.1 January 2014
> A renowned Textese expert at Warwick... Speculative Grammarian CLXXIII.1 May 2015
> There are those who abhor IPA... Speculative Grammarian CLXXI.4 December 2014
> There once was a prosody nerd... Speculative Grammarian CLXVIII.3 November 2013
> There was an old wizard of Oz... Speculative Grammarian CLXX.3 July 2014
> There was this young lady from Lyons... Speculative Grammarian CLXXII.4 April 2015
 
Ness, Dev
> Ah definiteness! I have no hope... Speculative Grammarian CXCII.3 December 2022
 
Ness, Nate
> Ah definiteness! I have no hope... Speculative Grammarian CXCII.3 December 2022
 
Ng, Binary Blanche
> In a contest, a few years ago... Speculative Grammarian CXCI.1 September 2021
 
Ng, Larry
> One two three, one two three... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXVIII.2 September 2020
 
Ng, Spree
> SpecGram is a truly wonderful thing... Speculative Grammarian CXCII.2 September 2022
 
Niger, Aspergillus
> At the talk I attended last week... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXI.3 May 2018
> Occam’s standard draws quite a strict line... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXIII.2 December 2018
> Though I labored on case for a year... Speculative Grammarian CLXXX.1 November 2017
> With my bag of linguistical tricks... Speculative Grammarian CLXXVIII.2 February 2017
 
Nihilist, O.
> Almost a Linguistics Haiku Cycle Speculative Grammarian CLXXXIII.1 November 2018
> C’est possible de traduire une rime... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXIX.1 December 2020
> E is for Every clarification you ask of me... Speculative Grammarian CLXXIX.3 August 2017
> Epitaph for SpecGram Speculative Grammarian CLXXVII.2 October 2016
> Good theorists in bed, it is said... Speculative Grammarian CLXXIV.1 September 2015
> I admit I can’t use IPA... Speculative Grammarian CLXXIX.4 October 2017
> I don’t mean to sound like a snob... Speculative Grammarian CLXXIX.2 June 2017
> I managed the labio-dentals... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXV.1 July 2019
> I Want You to Be Like Me Speculative Grammarian CLXXXV.4 October 2019
> In Europe and Africa too... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXII.4 October 2018
> In Glaswegian stops oft are heard... Speculative Grammarian CLXIX.3 March 2014
> It’s a field with une certaine mystique... Speculative Grammarian CLXXIV.4 December 2015
> Klingon is far too bizarre... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXIII.2 December 2018
> A linguist of uncommon girth... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXII.1 July 2018
> A linguist, Rick Roll by name... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXVII.1 March 2020
> Linguistics teachers, they say... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXII.2 August 2018
> Morphophonetics... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXIII.4 February 2019
> On fieldwork, I met a translator... Speculative Grammarian CLXXIII.1 May 2015
> A peaceful Scottish scholar... Speculative Grammarian CLXXIX.2 June 2017
> Poetry is hard... Speculative Grammarian CXCII.3 December 2022
> Prescriptivist hacks have me beat... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXIV.1 March 2019
> Prescriptivists love nothing fewer... Speculative Grammarian CXCII.2 September 2022
> Reviewer Feedback Speculative Grammarian CXC.3 June 2021
> Roses are red... Speculative Grammarian CLXXVII.1 September 2016
> Some linguists in Edinburgh say... Speculative Grammarian CLXXII.1 January 2015
> Some literary linguists once said... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXI.1 March 2018
> Supervisor is angry... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXI.3 May 2018
> The Tenure Boogie Speculative Grammarian CLXXXVI.3 January 2020
> A theorist got stuck in a tree... Speculative Grammarian CLXXIII.3 July 2015
> There once was a clever old frog... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXVI.1 November 2019
> There once was a journal called SpecGram... Speculative Grammarian CLXIX.2 February 2014
> There once was a linguist from France... Speculative Grammarian CLXVIII.4 December 2013
> There once was a linguistic garrison... Speculative Grammarian CXCI.3 December 2021
> There once was a translation scholar... Speculative Grammarian CLXVIII.2 October 2013
> There once was an ideal speaker... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXIV.3 May 2019
> There once was an old supervisor... Speculative Grammarian CLXXV.1 January 2016
> There was an old lady from Beith... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXI.4 June 2018
> There’s a sound I’ve heard linguists say... Speculative Grammarian CLXXII.3 March 2015
> To turn a linguist to a sonneteer... Speculative Grammarian CLXXVI.2 June 2016
> Understanding our linguistic inheritance... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXVII.2 April 2020
> The Voyager probe was a plan to... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXI.2 April 2018
> We all know that it’s quite debatable... Speculative Grammarian CXCI.1 September 2021
> When fieldworking in the midwest... Speculative Grammarian CLXIX.4 April 2014
> When linguistical thinking goes lax... Speculative Grammarian CLXXII.2 February 2015
> When quality data is lacking... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXII.3 September 2018
> Wide double-dot O, we are told... Speculative Grammarian CLXXI.3 November 2014
> Your hard drive crashes... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXVI.2 December 2019
 
Nine Teens of Fife
> In Boulogne in 1905... Speculative Grammarian CXCI.4 March 2022
 
Nolst Trenité, Gerard
> The Chaos Speculative Grammarian CLXXVIII.4 April 2017
 
Nwon, Holy
> I’ll ask ’er—Alaska. porthole—poor toll... Speculative Grammarian CXCIV.1 July 2024
 

O Authors ^
O’Bition, X
> 10 x 10, that comes to 100... Speculative Grammarian CXCIV.2 October 2024
 
Ockham, William of
> Ockham’s Limerick Speculative Grammarian CLXXXIII.2 December 2018
 
Official SpecGram Poem Submission
> Fight Night, Right?! Speculative Grammarian CXCIII.2 October 2023
> I really, really like (in fact love) SpecGram because it’s good—and others do too! Speculative Grammarian CXCIII.2 October 2023
> Meta-Systematicity Speculative Grammarian CXCIII.2 October 2023
 
Oing, B. D.
> SpecGram is a truly wonderful thing... Speculative Grammarian CXCII.2 September 2022
 
Oisais, Gilles
> Ah, the green grass of that vibrant scene!... Speculative Grammarian CXCIII.1 June 2023
 
Oisais, N V
> Ah, the green grass of that vibrant scene!... Speculative Grammarian CXCIII.1 June 2023
 
O’Knott-Tubby, Toby
> I can’t fully understand why... Speculative Grammarian CXCIII.4 April 2024
 
Ο᾿Κῶλον, Κόμμα
> As I learn more of creolization... Speculative Grammarian CLXXIII.1 May 2015
> Kenneth Lee Pike... Speculative Grammarian CLXXVII.2 October 2016
> A linguist told to assimilate... Speculative Grammarian CLXXIV.4 December 2015
> A lover of words’s formations... Speculative Grammarian CLXXIX.1 May 2017
> Of nominal tense, Guaraní... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXIII.3 January 2019
> The Old Phonetician of Stroud... Speculative Grammarian CLXX.1 May 2014
> On Татьяна’s lingvistic devotion... Speculative Grammarian CLXXVII.4 December 2016
> Perhaps some vowel reductions... Speculative Grammarian CLXXV.2 February 2016
> Pronouncing an “ough” is quite tough... Speculative Grammarian CLXIX.3 March 2014
> The right name is so hard to determine... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXV.1 July 2019
> So your shiny new title is “Adjunct”... Speculative Grammarian CLXXX.1 November 2017
> SpecGram causes unwilling grins... Speculative Grammarian CLXIX.2 February 2014
> The syntax I studied ad verbum... Speculative Grammarian CLXXI.4 December 2014
> The /tæsḷ/’s Worth the /hæsḷ/! Speculative Grammarian CXCII.1 June 2022
> There’s a sweet phonetician named Vicky... Speculative Grammarian CLXXVI.2 June 2016
> When first you learn how to babble... Speculative Grammarian CLXIX.1 January 2014
 
O’Munt, Guss
> Ode to the Pedagogical Affordances of Government and Binding Theory for the Promotion of Syntactical Education and Awareness Speculative Grammarian CXCIII.2 October 2023
 
O’Nall, Noam
> To claim that an entity’s nominal... Speculative Grammarian CXCII.4 March 2023
 
Onesimus, H.D.
> As for testing I’ve found this conundrum... Speculative Grammarian CLXXX.2 December 2017
> The dystopian vision of functional linguistics... Speculative Grammarian CXCIII.1 June 2023
> Grading... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXVII.2 April 2020
 
O’Phedon, Boust R.
> Typographers love... Speculative Grammarian CLXXIX.1 May 2017
 
Ora, Noam
> As a Christian Floridian medic... Speculative Grammarian CXCIV.2 October 2024
 
Orr, Madge
> Sapir–Whorf states that what words are said... Speculative Grammarian CXCII.1 June 2022
 
O’Tiszi-Tee, Mattie
> If language can be considered to be... Speculative Grammarian CXCII.1 June 2022
 
O’Tiszi-Tee, Siss
> If language can be considered to be... Speculative Grammarian CXCII.1 June 2022
 
O’Tiszi-Tee, Tam
> If language can be considered to be... Speculative Grammarian CXCII.1 June 2022
 
Owain ap Maredydd ap Tudur
> On a read-through of Henry V... Speculative Grammarian CXCIII.4 April 2024
 

P Authors ^
P. of Eks
> ∀P ∀x—then what’s next?... Speculative Grammarian CXCI.4 March 2022
 
Pee, N.
> The semantics of noun specificity... Speculative Grammarian CXCII.4 March 2023
 
Pelkey, Jamin
> Mandarin Tone in Historical Epic Quest Perspective Speculative Grammarian CL.4 October 2005
 
Perniquity, Pumptilian
> All dozing off, zoning or zenning out... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXV.3 September 2019
> All the notes, when my novel was sent back... Speculative Grammarian CLXXX.2 December 2017
> An analysis tedious of ‘wondrous’... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXII.3 September 2018
> By our seeking distinctions discriminable... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXIV.4 June 2019
> Do elicit the type of the monger... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXIV.3 May 2019
> Freshmen studying ling analytics... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXV.1 July 2019
> From standing in loco parentis... Speculative Grammarian CLXXX.1 November 2017
> God’s Truth in Grammar Speculative Grammarian CLXXXII.4 October 2018
> I muttered, “It’s 'ta.mi.əs 'stri.ə.təs”... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXI.2 April 2018
> I think that I shall never see... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXII.2 August 2018
> In school some linguists, mocking more... Speculative Grammarian CLXXVI.1 May 2016
> It seemed to Meillet on a bender... Speculative Grammarian CLXXVI.2 June 2016
> It’s known dogs are insipid and dumb... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXVI.2 December 2019
> It’s not easy composing a triolet... Speculative Grammarian CLXXIX.2 June 2017
> Language and Word trashed some research... Speculative Grammarian CLXXV.4 April 2016
> Like hot dogs, in the summer grilled... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXIII.1 November 2018
> A linguist named Jack was ambitious... Speculative Grammarian CLXXII.2 February 2015
> A linguist there was of the Old School... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXVII.4 June 2020
> A linguist who sought to learn Navajo... Speculative Grammarian CLXXVII.4 December 2016
> A loanword I heard in अमरो- Speculative Grammarian CLXXIV.1 September 2015
> Mission Statement Speculative Grammarian CXCII.3 December 2022
> My work on a language near Jatobal... Speculative Grammarian CLXXIV.3 November 2015
> My work on the causal because-clause... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXIV.2 April 2019
> New Yorkers debate metrosexuals... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXIII.3 January 2019
> An odd linguist with manner censorial... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXVIII.1 August 2020
> The OED’s note for the triolet... Speculative Grammarian CLXXIX.2 June 2017
> A prescriptivist, manner peremptory... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXV.4 October 2019
> A reference grammar’f Rotokas... Speculative Grammarian CLXXVI.4 August 2016
> Some fricatives hiss like a cat... Speculative Grammarian CLXIX.1 January 2014
> Statistical rigor’s no relevance... Speculative Grammarian CLXXX.4 February 2018
> A stop is a curious sound... Speculative Grammarian CLXVIII.3 November 2013
> Strange trees they have in Cambridge Town... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXI.3 May 2018
> A student of Urdu named Linda... Speculative Grammarian CLXXI.4 December 2014
> That strange witch at Greenwich who haunted... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXI.4 June 2018
> There once was a bright Қазақ қыз... Speculative Grammarian CLXXII.3 March 2015
> There once was a gymnast phonologist... Speculative Grammarian CLXX.3 July 2014
> There once was a linguist from Phuket... Speculative Grammarian CLXVIII.2 October 2013
> There once was a linguist named Beavis... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXVIII.3 October 2020
> There once was a linguist named Hallyer... Speculative Grammarian CLXXIII.3 July 2015
> There once was a linguist named Lindstrom... Speculative Grammarian CLXXI.3 November 2014
> There once was a linguist named Shlomo... Speculative Grammarian CLXIX.4 April 2014
> There once was a linguistic duo... Speculative Grammarian CLXIX.2 February 2014
> There once was a linguistics journal... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXVI.1 November 2019
> There once was a mad syntactician... Speculative Grammarian CLXX.2 June 2014
> There once was a scurrilous gnome... Speculative Grammarian CLXIX.3 March 2014
> There once was a student of Cree... Speculative Grammarian CLXX.1 May 2014
> There once was a student of Quechua... Speculative Grammarian CLXXV.3 March 2016
> There once was a thinker contrarian... Speculative Grammarian CXCI.2 October 2021
> There once were two experts of Shona... Speculative Grammarian CLXXVII.1 September 2016
> Though the system of kin terms was bothersome... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXI.1 March 2018
> ’Tis most strange to behold such a thing... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXIII.2 December 2018
> A title, seen browsing my interest... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXII.1 July 2018
> To many in our global age... Speculative Grammarian CXCII.4 March 2023
> Twinkle twinkle little star... Speculative Grammarian CLXXIX.3 August 2017
> Vowels are made as the tongue... Speculative Grammarian CLXVIII.4 December 2013
> What it costs your prestige you must see... Speculative Grammarian CLXXIX.1 May 2017
> When funds for her research Liz sought her... Speculative Grammarian CLXXVIII.1 January 2017
> When prescribing the graciousness she’d adore... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXIV.1 March 2019
> When proposing five null morphs to follow paths... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXIII.4 February 2019
> While pursuing Caucasianist schemes... Speculative Grammarian CLXXVIII.3 March 2017
> With his nominalist thinking down pat... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXIII.2 December 2018
> With my pate both addled and balding... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXVII.1 March 2020
> Worn out by results insufficient... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXV.2 August 2019
> A young expat with voicing a-wobbler... Speculative Grammarian CLXXIX.4 October 2017
> A young linguist who worked on crustacea... Speculative Grammarian CLXXVIII.2 February 2017
 
Pervisor, Sue
> hours spent commenting... Speculative Grammarian CXCIII.3 January 2024
 
Phil, Joy
> “Joyous and joyful. Synonymy?”... Speculative Grammarian CXCIV.3 February 2025
 
Phonétique, Phrançoise
> Once there stood a man in God-knows-where... Speculative Grammarian CLXVIII.2 October 2013
> There was once an old Phonetician... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXII.3 September 2018
> Velum, Velum, Little Thing Speculative Grammarian CLXVI.2 January 2013
 
Pisces, Pocus
> Veritas Psammeticus Quarterly XVI.4 August 1989
 
Pisces, Porcus
> An Invitation to the Dance Psammeticus Quarterly XVI.2 February 1989
 
The Pitch Witch
> Young lady, I have a confession... Speculative Grammarian CLXXIV.1 September 2015
 
Preaching, Auntie
> While I’ve always use morae when teaching... Speculative Grammarian CXCIV.2 October 2024
 
Ptic (& Co.)
> Now Koine Greek must be your optic... Speculative Grammarian CXCII.4 March 2023
 
Pudding, Strawberry
> Some dictionaries offer ‘doctorial’... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXIX.3 February 2021
> That language is combinatorial... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXVIII.4 November 2020
 

Q Authors ^
Qondh, Stu
> So many things self-define... Speculative Grammarian CXCIV.1 July 2024
 
Quelle, Querman
> So Mark wrote first (say, 62)... Speculative Grammarian CXC.1 April 2021
 
Quixotic de la Lengua, Don
> Spanish sometimes goes with a « más que »... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXIX.4 March 2021
 

R Authors ^
Ramm, Thea
> Godel cried ‘It’s incomplete!...’ Speculative Grammarian CXCIV.3 February 2025
 
Ree, T
> Climbing the Walls Theoretical Trees Speculative Grammarian CXCIII.2 October 2023
 
Ree, Theo
> Ode to the Holy Trinity of Generativism, Role and Reference Grammar and Construction Grammar Speculative Grammarian CXCIII.2 October 2023
 
Reed, Ishmael
> I am a cowboy in the boat of langue Psammeticus Quarterly XVI.4 August 1989
 
Ren, A.
> Who’s the greatest Saussure in the land?... Speculative Grammarian CXCI.3 December 2021
 
Rhaig, Colm
> Welsh has no analogue of a(n)... Speculative Grammarian CXCII.3 December 2022
 
Rhaig, Kim
> Consider now Welsh soft mutation... Speculative Grammarian CXCIV.1 July 2024
 
Rhopian, U.
> To My American Colleagues Speculative Grammarian CLXXXVII.2 April 2020
 
Riptoff, Priss K.
> To something I must now confess... Speculative Grammarian CLXXV.2 February 2016
 
Risman, Harris
> Brother, Can You Paradigm? Speculative Grammarian CLII.3 May 2007
 
Robbins, “Basquin’ ”, III
> “Passive voice, schmassive voice!” Speculative Grammarian CXCII.3 December 2022
 
Robert of Norwich
> A Plea for Shortnesse Speculative Grammarian CLV.1 September 2008
 
Robson, Callum
> Annyeonghaseyo!... Speculative Grammarian CLXXI.2 October 2014
> “Kore wa anata no hon desu ka?”... Speculative Grammarian CLXXI.3 November 2014
> There was a fine linguist who wanted to sleep... Speculative Grammarian CLXXI.4 December 2014
> There was once was a linguist whose strong point wasn’t brevity, man I mean he could go on for a while!... Speculative Grammarian CLXX.4 August 2014
 
R’Ron, Ronald
> The Lord of the Rings: A Fictlangy Ker-ching Speculative Grammarian CXC.3 June 2021
 
Rulls, Pru
> Make plurals by adding a -j... Speculative Grammarian CXCI.3 December 2021
 
Ruth, T.
> I’ve tried just as hard as I’m able... Speculative Grammarian CXCI.4 March 2022
 

S Authors ^
Sai
> Amazing Grice Speculative Grammarian CLXVI.3 February 2013
 
Sam
> The accusative -n termination... Speculative Grammarian CXCI.2 October 2021
 
Sam, U. L.
> In English: Nothing to be done... Speculative Grammarian CXCIII.4 April 2024
 
Sarah, Hex-Mex
> I’m writing a new research article... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXVIII.4 November 2020
 
Sassenhagen, Jona
> Kill All Phoneticians Speculative Grammarian CLXIX.3 March 2014
 
Sauvignon, Shiraz
> In the lecture hall one bright clear day... Speculative Grammarian CLXXVIII.3 March 2017
> Reading theses is really quite fun... Speculative Grammarian CLXXX.1 November 2017
 
Savoy, Alex
> How Do I Love Thee?—Let Me Draw a Tree Diagram Speculative Grammarian CLXI.2 March 2011
 
Schadenpoodle, Athanasious
> Philologer’s Kvetchwhinge 32 Speculative Grammarian CLXVI.4 March 2013
 
Schäfer, Lea
> Kill All Phoneticians Speculative Grammarian CLXIX.3 March 2014
 
Schw’Schwa, Schwadles
> Ode to Schwa Speculative Grammarian CLXXXVIII.2 September 2020
 
Shoeheart, Hugh
> There was once a Romance grammarian... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXVIII.4 November 2020
 
Шүлт, Хүчил
> As grad school approaches its end... Speculative Grammarian CLXXVII.3 November 2016
> From all that I read before bed... Speculative Grammarian CLXXVII.3 November 2016
> I seek whiskey this weekend to quicken... Speculative Grammarian CLXXVII.3 November 2016
> My eyes twitch as they stare at the mug... Speculative Grammarian CLXXVII.3 November 2016
> A student with sentiments jingle-ish... Speculative Grammarian CLXXVII.3 November 2016
> The TA’s Discussion Section Blues Speculative Grammarian CLXXVII.3 November 2016
 
Sikes, Bill
> The principle, there, of bivalence... Speculative Grammarian CXCI.4 March 2022
 
Simpson, MJ
> In suspenders and pants and a vest... Speculative Grammarian CLXXVII.2 October 2016
 
Slater, Edgar Allan
> Val Harmony Langue du Monde XVI.4 September 1991
 
Slater, Keith
> Aubade Speculative Grammarian CLXXVI.4 August 2016
> In space, no one can hear you scream Speculative Grammarian CXLVIII.3 February 1998
> The Learner’s Task Linguist of Fortune I.1 November 1990
> Selections from Linguistics is Kind and The Binary Riders and Other Lines Speculative Grammarian CLXXX.2 December 2017
 
Smith, Zac
> Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammars... Speculative Grammarian CLXXII.1 January 2015
> I once had a girlfriend named Candy... Speculative Grammarian CLXX.4 August 2014
 
Smuss, Eckhart (Eck)
> I’m told Father Christmas abhors... Speculative Grammarian CXCIII.3 January 2024
 
Sorius, Seneca (Sen)
> What a Waist! Speculative Grammarian CXCIII.4 April 2024
 
The SpecGram Limerick Editors and Interns
> On this page, many limericks you’ll find... Speculative Grammarian CXCIV.2 October 2024
 
Speyer, I.
> Appeldorf, Apfeldorf Speculative Grammarian CLXXXV.3 September 2019
 
Spruiell, William C.
> I Think That I Shall Never See Collateral Descendant
     of Lingua Pranca		 October 2009
 
Steiner, Reed
> I owe every nerd an apology... Speculative Grammarian CXC.4 Mid-July 2021
 
Stinnett, Tom
> Further Discoveries Pertinent to The Public Humiliation of Si Speculative Grammarian CLXI.3 April 2011
> Further Pre-Nara Japanese Poem Discoveries Speculative Grammarian CLXI.2 March 2011
> Rare Ancient Japanese Poem Unearthed! Speculative Grammarian CLXI.1 February 2011
 
Straight, H. Stephen
> It’s true that in ev’ry society... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXII.3 September 2018
> A Linguist Fine and Rare Speculative Grammarian CLXXVI.1 May 2016
> Linguistics, the queen of the sciences... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXII.1 July 2018
> Phonemes pertain to phonetics... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXI.1 March 2018
> When it comes to matters of meaning... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXI.2 April 2018
 
Student, Pee H. D.
> Prof Chesterman’s writing surmises... Speculative Grammarian CLXXIII.4 August 2015
 
Sucré, Henri
> Phonemes Speculative Grammarian CLXXXVIII.4 November 2020
> Phones Speculative Grammarian CLXXXVIII.3 October 2020
 
Sundaé!, Sandy! Sandhi!
> Hibbledy quibbledy... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXIII.3 January 2019
 
Swadesh, Morris, III
> After working all night on my thesis... Speculative Grammarian CLXXIV.4 December 2015
> After writing a long dissertation... Speculative Grammarian CLXVIII.2 October 2013
> All new grad students work ’til they sweat... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXIII.2 December 2018
> All our theories succeed as they do... Speculative Grammarian CLXXVIII.1 January 2017
> As for topics, they’re what we all know... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXI.1 March 2018
> Castrén’s writings surpassed the prosaic... Speculative Grammarian CLXXVI.2 June 2016
> Differential Accusative case... Speculative Grammarian CXCI.4 March 2022
> Every doctoral thesis I’ve read... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXIII.1 November 2018
> Every fairy tale makes itself true... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXII.2 August 2018
> I love science: the facts! the statistics! Speculative Grammarian CLXXVI.4 August 2016
> If only Speculative Grammarian CLXXXI.3 May 2018
> I’m told that language documentation... Speculative Grammarian CLXX.4 August 2014
> In considering your short submission... Speculative Grammarian CXC.3 June 2021
> In preparing a talk for some linguists... Speculative Grammarian CLXVIII.4 December 2013
> In the physics department their closets... Speculative Grammarian CLXXIX.3 August 2017
> In this paper I have solved longstanding issues... Speculative Grammarian CLXXVII.4 December 2016
> It wasn’t the first morpheme cut... Speculative Grammarian CLXXX.4 February 2018
> I’ve laid out my plans for the class... Speculative Grammarian CLXXX.1 November 2017
> King Psammeticus showed us the way... Speculative Grammarian CLXXVI.3 July 2016
> The limerick’s pattern’s forgiving... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXIV.2 April 2019
> A linguist was driven to distraction... Speculative Grammarian CLXXII.3 March 2015
> A linguist who taught at our college... Speculative Grammarian CLXXV.1 January 2016
> Linguists’ articles are bad, that’s for sure... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXVI.2 December 2019
> “Morphophoneme” has too many o’s... Speculative Grammarian CLXXVIII.3 March 2017
> On her way past my office one day... Speculative Grammarian CLXXIX.4 October 2017
> On Transparency in Placement of Adpositional Casemarkers Speculative Grammarian CXCIII.2 October 2023
> One hundred is quite a large sum... Speculative Grammarian CXCIV.2 October 2024
> Peer Review Song Cycle Speculative Grammarian CLXXX.3 January 2018
> The sad tale of an equine they tell... Speculative Grammarian CLXXV.2 February 2016
> The Sinitical script of East Asia... Speculative Grammarian CLXXIX.1 May 2017
> Some phonologists’ haikus... Speculative Grammarian CXCII.4 March 2023
> Sometimes problematic data can’t be saved... Speculative Grammarian CLXXVIII.2 February 2017
> Spatial / temporal / aspectual-... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXI.2 April 2018
> Syntacticians in search of new data... Speculative Grammarian CLXIX.4 April 2014
> There once was a linguist emeritus... Speculative Grammarian CLXX.2 June 2014
> There once was a linguist from Mordor... Speculative Grammarian CLXXIII.3 July 2015
> There once was a linguist quite critical... Speculative Grammarian CLXXII.4 April 2015
> There once was a linguist satirical... Speculative Grammarian CLXIX.2 February 2014
> There once was a phonotactician... Speculative Grammarian CLXXIV.1 September 2015
> There once was a phonotactician... Speculative Grammarian CLXXIV.2 October 2015
> There once was a syntax professor... Speculative Grammarian CLXXII.1 January 2015
> There once was an old corpus builder... Speculative Grammarian CLXXIV.3 November 2015
> There once were some vowels that were creaky... Speculative Grammarian CLXXII.2 February 2015
> This little haiku... Speculative Grammarian CXCII.2 September 2022
> Though joy may be ful... Speculative Grammarian CXCIV.3 February 2025
> Typology... Speculative Grammarian CLXXVII.1 September 2016
> When constituents leftward are sent... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXI.4 June 2018
> Write a paper, or watch the big game?... Speculative Grammarian CXCI.3 December 2021
> Writing poetry; though I persist... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXV.2 August 2019
> Young grad students I just can’t believe in... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXVI.1 November 2019
 
Swadesh, Morris, IV
> Human languages present... Speculative Grammarian CXCI.1 September 2021
 
SYNT
> Santacticians Poem Speculative Grammarian CL.1 January 2005
 
Syntactic Ian
> Three linguists were left at the rapture... Speculative Grammarian CLXXII.1 January 2015
 
Syntax, Deadly
> The phonetics test read: ‘Overleaf...’ Speculative Grammarian CXC.1 April 2021
 
Szemy, Polly
> If I happen to have a tough week... Speculative Grammarian CXCI.4 March 2022
 
Sziks, Bei
> So many things self-define... Speculative Grammarian CXCIV.1 July 2024
 

T Authors ^
Tactician, Sin
> I had an idea for a grand book... Speculative Grammarian CXCI.4 March 2022
 
The Tale Teller of Tollerton Town
> Whose is that voice in the distance, singing?... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXVIII.2 September 2020
 
Teme, Ero
> Linguimericks tripping on their own feet... Speculative Grammarian CLXXIX.3 August 2017
 
Tepuke, Terry
> It’s not you Speculative Grammarian CLXXXIV.1 March 2019
 
Terbi, Algo V.
> When my students discovered phonetics... Speculative Grammarian CLXXV.3 March 2016
 
Terry, Miss
> Problem plays, histories, tragedies... Speculative Grammarian CXCIII.4 April 2024
 
Тетяӕмәтяіх, І.М. Вікторія “Вік”
> A Deep Linguistic Mystery Speculative Grammarian CXCII.3 December 2022
 
Thompson, Mikael
> The Great Phonetical Epic Hymn Speculative Grammarian CLXXXIV.1 March 2019
> An odd linguist with manner censorial... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXVIII.1 August 2020
> Speculative Grammarian’s Song Speculative Grammarian CLXXV.3 March 2016
 
Þ’Þee, Þeedles
> Þe ⟨ð⟩-er ⟨þ⟩-y Question Speculative Grammarian CXCI.4 March 2022
 
Tickle, Pa
> ‘My friend has just run up that hill’... Speculative Grammarian CXCIII.1 June 2023
 
Tix
> When training up our novice, full-of-beans phonetics teachers... Speculative Grammarian CXCIII.2 October 2023
 
Traditional
> Phonologist’s Shanty Speculative Grammarian CLXXIV.1 September 2015
> ’Trilaa Counting Song Speculative Grammarian CLX.2 November 2010
 
Treigh, D.
> Of all the stuff I’ve ever written... Speculative Grammarian CXCIV.2 October 2024
 
Tress, Miss
> ‘My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun.’... Speculative Grammarian CXCIII.4 April 2024
 
Tushka, Chaz
> A calque is a kind of translation... Speculative Grammarian CLXXIV.2 October 2015
> For emphasis reduplicate!... Speculative Grammarian CLXVIII.4 December 2013
> How it parses is a mystery... Speculative Grammarian CLXXV.4 April 2016
> How many words would a spellcheck check... Speculative Grammarian CLXXV.1 January 2016
> A language in truth universal... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXIII.4 February 2019
> MetaLinguimerick Speculative Grammarian CLXXIX.4 October 2017
> “Oh how I love Chinese letters!”... Speculative Grammarian CLXXIV.1 September 2015
> Sites where students can rate their professors... Speculative Grammarian CLXXX.1 November 2017
> So, two linguists-cum-lovers tried quick... Speculative Grammarian CLXXVII.1 September 2016
> Your speeching’s very disturbed. Speculative Grammarian CLXVIII.3 November 2013
 
Tyll, W. Dak
> Modulo schmodulo... Speculative Grammarian CXCII.2 September 2022
 
Typesetter’s Traditional Nursery Rhyme
> soft hyphen, ­ hyphen... Speculative Grammarian CLXXII.1 January 2015
 

U Authors ^
Uck, Ken
> In English the plural is morae... Speculative Grammarian CXCIV.2 October 2024
 
Unger, J. M.
> Assistant Professor’s Song Speculative Grammarian CLII.1 January 2007
 
Unknown
> Sumer Is Icumen In Speculative Grammarian CXCIV.1 July 2024
 

V Authors ^
va Voce, Vi
> O rue the day I god a cold... Speculative Grammarian CLXXIX.3 August 2017
> There was once a linguist from Bow... Speculative Grammarian CLXXIX.4 October 2017
 
Vaguely, in Words
> I don’t think your grammar’s superb... Speculative Grammarian CLXXI.3 November 2014
> The Neogrammarians’ work... Speculative Grammarian CLXXVI.1 May 2016
 
van Tuckett, Mannfrum
> Avram Noam Chomsky... Speculative Grammarian CLXX.4 August 2014
> Morphemic, schmorphemic! Speculative Grammarian CLXXI.4 December 2014
> Pinching up narrower... Speculative Grammarian CLXXIII.1 May 2015
> Students looking for linguistic heroes... Speculative Grammarian CLXXX.1 November 2017
> Symbols for sciency... Speculative Grammarian CLXXII.2 February 2015
> There once pondered a typologist, weak and weary... Speculative Grammarian CLXIX.1 January 2014
> There once was a budding morphologist... Speculative Grammarian CLXXIV.3 November 2015
> There once was a clause existential... Speculative Grammarian CLXVIII.3 November 2013
> There once was a phonemic contrast... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXII.3 September 2018
> There once was a student of diachroný... Speculative Grammarian CLXXX.2 December 2017
> There once was not a logician. Speculative Grammarian CLXIX.2 February 2014
 
Vlad the Inhaler
> A PhD student called Emma... Speculative Grammarian CLXXIV.3 November 2015
 
von d’Zamen de la Hof, M. Ludoviko
> Vi skribas dulingvan poemon... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXIX.1 December 2020
 
von Ettix, Zsoundz
> By ‘pronounce’ we tend to mean ‘articulate’... Speculative Grammarian CXCI.1 September 2021
 
von Krackenschaffle de la Musica O’Seamus-Thompson-Smith, Finkmunster
> I once had a brilliant thesis... Speculative Grammarian CXC.4 Mid-July 2021
 

W Authors ^
Walton, John-Boy
> The Compleat Linguist Collateral Descendant
     of Lingua Pranca		 October 2009
 
Weller, Tom
> Beowulf ond Godsylla Speculative Grammarian CLII.3 May 2007
 
Wells-Jensen, Sheri
> A language discovered on Mars... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXV.1 July 2019
> A lovely red bird came to scoff... Speculative Grammarian CLXXII.4 April 2015
> My hen sang to me this sad song... Speculative Grammarian CLXXI.2 October 2014
> My hound said to me, “You’re a cad... Speculative Grammarian CLXXII.3 March 2015
> My tom said to me one dark night... Speculative Grammarian CLXX.4 August 2014
> A sentence constructed in space... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXVI.3 January 2020
> That family restaurant... Speculative Grammarian CLXXV.3 March 2016
> That Tenured Man Speculative Grammarian CLXXX.2 December 2017
> There once was a minimalist who... Speculative Grammarian CLXVIII.2 October 2013
 
Wen
> ... 97, 98, 99, then... Speculative Grammarian CXCIV.2 October 2024
 
Whitcomb, James Riley
> Old Professor Hockett World of Language I.2 February 1991
 
Whom, Dr.
> AABBA is a form... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXVII.1 March 2020
> The daily routine keeps me busy... Speculative Grammarian CLXXIX.3 August 2017
> My Ista complained to my face... Speculative Grammarian CLXXI.2 October 2014
> Of languages I know a ton... Speculative Grammarian CLXXIII.4 August 2015
> There are languages made without sound... Speculative Grammarian CLXXV.4 April 2016
> A Vembletroon Speculative Grammarian CLXXVI.3 July 2016
 
Worm, N. Significant
> The Stalker Speculative Grammarian CL.4 October 2005
 
Ŵydd, Mam
> F before double F... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXV.4 October 2019
> Hickory, dickory, dock... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXIV.3 May 2019
 

X Authors ^
X. of Pee
> The principle, there, of bivalence... Speculative Grammarian CXCI.4 March 2022
 
Xpiah, Trey
> ‘A little more than kin and less than kind’... Speculative Grammarian CXCIV.3 February 2025
 
Xpiah, Wiliie
> ‘A little more than kin and less than kind’... Speculative Grammarian CXCIV.3 February 2025
 

Y Authors ^
Yooza-Tivv(on), Ike
> Boulogne?! Boulogne-sur-Mer!... Speculative Grammarian CXCI.4 March 2022
 

Z Authors ^
Zamendiko, Ludoviko
> La ĉef’ de la grupo el Lilo... Speculative Grammarian CLXXXIX.4 March 2021
 
Zarfu
> Whinge Speculative Grammarian CLXXIX.3 August 2017
 
Zipfus, Claudius Terentianus
> Hapax Legomena Speculative Grammarian CLXXXVIII.1 August 2020
 
Zow, Lo-Lo
> I wish I had known Ludoviko... Speculative Grammarian CXCI.2 October 2021