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Every family has a secret language. Experts call it ‘familect.’

The memory and meaning in our weird, family-specific words, often born of the wild minds of children.

Familect

Familects often gain vocabulary through the words young children create as they learn to talk, when these words are adopted by the family.[1][2] Familects also gain vocabulary through slips of the tongue and word invention.[3]

What is a word that is used in your family all the time, and you wish everyone else used it, too.

149 votes, 880 comments. Could be a word your family invented, or just an obscure one. UPDATE: So many great words! Anyway we can turn this into an…

Why your family’s secret language is good for kids

‘That whoa-whoa is chasing the hodgie!’ Your household’s familect can strengthen bonds and develop language skills.

Word family

A word family is the base form of a word plus its inflected forms and derived forms made with suffixes and prefixes[1] plus its cognates, i.e. all words that have a common etymological origin, some of which even native speakers don't recognize as being related (e.g. "wrought (iron)" and "work(ed)").[2] In the English language, inflectional affixes include third person -s, verbal -ed and -ing, plural -s, possessive -s, comparative -er and superlative -est. Derivational affixes include -able, -er, -ish, -less, -ly, -ness, -th, -y, non-, un-, -al, -ation, -ess, -ful, -ism, -ist, -ity, -ize/-ise, -ment, in-.[1] The idea is that a base word and its inflected forms support the same core meaning, and can be considered learned words if a learner knows both the base word and the affix. Bauer and Nation proposed seven levels of affixes based on their frequency in English.[3] It has been shown that word families can assist with deriving related words via affixes, along with decreasing the time needed to derive and recognize such words.[4]

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English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family. It emerged in early medieval England and has since become a global lingua franca. The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the Germanic peoples who migrated to Britain after the end of Roman rule. English is the most spoken language in the world, primarily due to the global influences of the former British Empire and the United States. It is the most widely learned second language in the world, with more second-language speakers than native speakers. However, English is only the third-most spoken native language, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish.

Origins of the Family

The Consanguine Family (The First Stage of the Family) The Punaluan Family The Pairing Family The Monogamous Family