Kitchen Table Lingo USA

At the English Project we reckon that America’s kitchens are just bursting out with private language. In fact, our first book of Kitchen Table Lingo had a few contributions from the USA. They smelled like freshly-made coffee. So now we want many more of them.

So here are the rules:
Kitchen Table Lingo is primarily about private language – the invention and handing on of words within families or friendship groups. It is not slang (which is in common usage and which no-one can quite pin down in its origins).

So if you have words which:

• have been invented or been handed down amongst your family or friends
• are not in the standard dictionaries (or at least not with that meaning)
• are used by at least three people
• have been in use for at least one month
• are decent and repeatable

then we would like to receive them. Just fill in the details below.

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