Speculative
Grammarian
Volume CLXIX
Number 4
The Year of the Doʊɡ
Contents
Trey Jones, Editor-in-Chief
Keith Slater, Executive Editor
Bill Spruiell, Senior Editor
Sheri Wells-Jensen, Consulting Editor

Associate Editors
Madalena Cruz-Ferreira
Jonathan Downie
Mikael Thompson

Assistant Editors
Pete Bleackley
Virginia Bouchard
Florian Breit
Callum Robson

Editorial Associates
Kenny Baclawski
Bethany Carlson
Sophie Elsässer
Katerina Kandylaki
Stephanie Leser
Mark Mandel
Tel Monks
Daniela Müller
Tuuli Mustasydän
David J. Peterson
Jona Sassenhagen
Lea Schäfer
Zac Smith
Tangent Wong

Joey Whitford, Comptroller General
The Issue Your Thesis Advisor
Doesn’t Want You to Read
April 2014

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