Happy World Lingustics Day!

[Lauren Gawne]

I hope you've had a lovely time sharing World Linguistics Day on social media and in your workplace!

If you missed out on the fun in your timezone, it's still World Linguistics Day somewhere for at least another 8 hours. 

And please do share in this thread if you wrote or created anything to celebrate. 

[AidanEM]

For World Linguistics Day I researched and made a Word Family of the etymology of "Saussure", as in Ferdinand de, born Nov 26 1857, 

https://bsky.app/profile/wordfamilyfriday.bsky.social/post/3m6lcbcamsc2o / https://www.patreon.com/posts/world-day-144493151

A presumed European substrate word *salik-/*selik-/*welik-: "willow" -> salicylic, Saussay/Saussure, sargasso, sallow, willow

[Gretchen McCulloch]

Summary stats for World Linguistics Day 2025 are up on the LingComm.org blog: https://lingcomm.org/2025/12/15/stats-from-world-linguistics-day-2025/ 

127 greetings in total were counted across a range of social media sites, including 70 cities, 34 countries, 6 languages, and 5 continents, as well as the Linguistics Association of Finland and the Linguistics Association of Great Britain.