Babel No51 (Summer 2025)
Articles
A pound of pineapple David Voisin uncovers the etymologies of ‘pound’ and ‘pineapple’
Hands across time Justin Marrier looks at the unique heritage of American Sign Language
Kamala Sen on reviving the near-extinct Kusunda Uday Raj Aaley and Subhasish Panigrahi talk to Kamala Sen
Swansea voices Daniel Strogen on how a city’s accent tells a story
Regular features
Meet the reader Ann Friedman
Language in the news The wrong solution to a non-existent problem
Diary of a linguist Katie Wales’ linguistic observations about the world around us
Meet the professionals Danny Hieber: Language revitaliser and linguistics communicator
Letters from a linguist Peter Trudgill on words that were borrowed but never returned
Languages of the world Sabar
Linguistic horizons The split Self in cinema
Kill the joke Alice Haines looks at performative humour
Giving voice a voice Good (indoor gardening) vibrations
A clash of symbols A moment on the lips
What has rhetoric ever done for us? Rhetoric, Plato and the sophists
Lives in language Fang-Kuei Li (1902-1987)
The word hoard The language of Lewis Carroll
Language games Parli itanglese?
Reviews Tony Crowlet’s Liverpool: A Memoir of Words, Jing Tsu’s Kingdom of Characters, Karen Langston’s Klova, and Susie Dent’s Guilty by Definition