Small dog, long word! A Lingthusiasm tinyzine

lingthusiasm:ALTALTALTALTALTWhy does “ie” turn “dog” into itty bitty “doggie”? In this Lingthusiasm zine, Leah Velleman gets enthusiastic about diminutives. Yes, this one is extra tiny, it’s a diminutive zine about diminutives! A zinelet? Or zineling?Print and fold your own copies8½ x 11 paperA4 paper How to cut and fold a minizine (for this extra special tinyzine, cut the paper into quarters first along the dotted lines, then fold and cut four tinyzines like a usual minizine) Learn moreThings we wish English had: diminutives(She’s right, we fudged a little! The -ie in “doggie” only works on some words in English. It would be cool to have a version that worked on every noun, like some languages have. Alternatively: be the change you want to see in the English language?) Abso-bloody-lutely, on the only infix in EnglishLingthusiasm Episode 100: A hundred reasons to be enthusiastic about linguistics YouTube channel of Upper St'át'imc nation, one of the groups who speak St'át'imcets,…