University of York Linguistics Society

📣There are the 5th posts of language $ linguistic fun facts:
📑The posts are from our excellent Department Rep of LLS in 24/25, Simon Edwards, who also nice and friendly person and finished his MA continually at UoY in 25/26.
✍️Simon introduced the morphology of the English Place Names and some interesting facts of our conversation.

📑There is the 2nd post about the fun facts of languages & linguistics:
✍️The post is from Daniel Clayton, our
LLS student community coordinator & academic officer of Linguistics Society in 25/26, he introduces about the numbers/cases of languages and the concept of “phonotactics” in linguistics.
📣Please keep an eye out for these similar posts from our LLS students, and we are welcome to post any interesting fun facts later!

📑There is a language & linguistics fun facts from Lily Zhang, who is the secretary of Linguistics Society:
👉It is about the language variation of dialects in southeast areas of China and how they used in Shaoxing Opera which is from these religions.

Meeting Our New LingSoc Committee in the Year 26/27!!!📣📣📣
👉President & Well-being Officer: Lulu Pelzer (2nd-year in Computer Science with AI)；
👉Secretary & Social Media Officer: Lily Zhang (3rd-year in English Language & Linguistics)；👉Treasurer: Ned Wills (2nd-year in Linguistics)
🎉We are looking forward to seeing you guys in campus and welcome everyone who wants to join our Linguistics Society in the new academic year!

Join us for our 2026 Summer Meal!!

Tickets will be available on YorkSU later this week, along with the form to preorder your meal choice. Tell housemates, tell friends, and tell coursemates! Celebrate the end of the year and start of summer with us! 💛

Introducing our schedule for May!

As term comes to a close we have two final events! Our rescheduled AGM and summer formal!

Remember there is still time to run for a committee position! so DM us if you’re interested and help save LingSoc for another year!! 💛

Join us and for a talk next Wednesday by Dr. Ben Gibb-Reid about phonetic methods and deepfake audio!

We can’t wait to see you there! 💛

Join us next Tuesday for a three mini academic talks and a language learning session!

We’ve got three masters students presenting on their current academic research as well as three exciting language sessions taught by speakers!

We can’t wait to see you there! 💛

TOMORROW!! Join us and at Brew York for a pub quiz! Bring cash as it’s £1 each for entry!! We can’t wait to see you there 💛

Would you like to help run LingSoc in the next academic year? Love organising events? Have a passion for canva? Or just need that extra something for your CV?

We’re hosting our elections this coming Tuesday and would love YOU to run!

All you need to do is fill out the form below and show up to our meeting, we will ask each candidate for a short speech or introduction about them and why they’d like a role. It will then be put to an anonymous vote!

A large amount of our committee is graduating this year so we welcome new faces! See you there! 💛