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