Brian Lera on WNYC, and for the last few minutes of the show, we're opening up the phones for a call in on the question,

what are some made up words that only your family says? Obviously, after being through another

round of heavy conversations today, we're going to end on a lighter note. This time

it's the question, what are some made-up words that only your family says? 212-433, WNYC, call or

text, 212, 433-9-692. Why do we ask this? Well, there was a story this month in the Washington Post about how

families have made up words that only they use. It's like a family dialect. So linguists call

this a fam-elect. There's actually a linguist word for those words that have come up only in your family.

Often because a little kid mispronounces something, right?

Or something like that.

They call it a family.

Many words in the family lexicon pop up.

When kids mispronounce something and then stick or just make up a word when kids are really little. And then those words linger

in the family for years, maybe generations. Who has one? 212-433 W-N-YC and a story behind it.

212-4-33-9-6-9-2 call or text. A few examples from the article, and I'll throw one in from me and from our intern veto.

Dipidi, D-I-P-A-D-E, I think I'm saying it right.

Dippity, for any condiment that you dunk your food into, like ranch or ketchup. Dipity.

Noonu's for noodles.

Bye-bye, meaning literally go to sleep, but also figuratively as in my computer went bye-bye.

So before we go bye-bye at noon, give us a ring to tell us a better word from your family dictionary.

Oh, they're flooding in already, so I'm going to stop this in just a second.

A pick from our intern, Uncle Bicey.

That's a jumbled up version of the phrase, unbuckle my seat.

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