Brian Lair on WNYC.

Well, we've been through such heavy stuff today.

Two views at the beginning of the show on what kind of mayor, either Zeranman Dani

or Andrew Cuomo would make two contrasting views on what kind of mayor they would be in ways that

they might try to directly influence the Middle East situation. Then we heard Kyle Cheney from Politico

on ways that the Trump administration may be illegally trying to send out-of-state military troops,

National Guard troops from Texas, for example, to Oregon or Chicago, above the wishes of the governors and the mayors there, and this just now,

on foreign aid. So, for our last six or seven minutes, we are going to end on the lighter

side with a second call in on a question we asked a few weeks ago, because we had so many more

calls than we could take. What are some made-up words that only your family says? What are some

made-up words that only your family says? 212-433 W-NYC,

212, 433-9-6-9-2. Call right up. You'll get right on because we're doing this in very limited time today.

It is a follow-up because we did this last month and we had so

much fun and we left so many words on the cutting room floor, so to speak, that we figured we would

do a part two and we're doing it now because we have a few minutes at the end of the show.

What are some made-up words that only your family says? 212-433 WNYC,

212-433-969.2. If you're lost, there was a story earlier this month, also in the Washington Post,

about how families have made up words that only they use. It's like a family dialect, which linguists

call a famillect, right? Many words in the family lexicon pop up when kids mispronounce something.

That's a common way. Or make one up when they're really little. A few examples that we heard

or that were in the original article. Dipity for any condiment you can dunk your food

into. New news for noodles. Those were in the article. Some of the ones callers came up with,

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