Familylect
Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Radio Archive, Episode 1616 , Segment 2
Episode: Athletes and Press, Troubled Teens, What to Save
- Jun 8, 2021 8:00 pm
- 13:48 mins
Does your family have a lingo? Maybe you’ve got certain words or phrases that mean something special to you, but not to anyone outside the family. Georgetown linguistics professor Cynthia Gordon calls these “familylects” – or family dialects - and says they have been made more common during the pandemic.
