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Upcoming editions of the Festival of Bad ad Hoc Hypotheses will take place in San Francisco, Seattle, and London. If you're not sure what these are like, here's a winning entry from BahFest West 2014:

I haven't been able to find complete programs for the 2013 and 2014 events. But based on the featured presentations, it looks to me as if Bad Ad hoc Hypotheses about linguistics are sadly under-represented, given our field's natural advantages in this area.

Unfortunately, some of the most promising possibilities have already been proposed in other settings without obvious satirical intent, and so anyone entering them in a BAHfest competition would be guilty of plagiarism as well as disrespect (or even lèse-majesté).

Still, there should be plenty of linguistic BAHs still available.

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