Martha Barnette

I thought it wasn't going to take time, and it took a good 23 hours to record it.

everybody has a story about language you know whether it's your your little kid who adorably mispronounced a word uh back in the day and your family just latches onto it and keeps talking about it keeps using that word i'm thinking of a little kid who

kept talking about something in the having it and the family was saying what the having it and, and they finally realized the kid was saying cabinet and they just kept saying that word, even though the kid kept getting older and older and understood, uh, the meaning of cabinet.

So, so there, there are words that people like to talk about that are in their family act.

That is the, the language, the individual language of, of family.

Yeah, I think they do.

And you're right, it's often the child and sometimes it's even a couple between the two of you.

You know, you'll mishear something that your partner says and then you just adopt that because it's so hilarious.

And I think another thing that really catches people's ears is regional dialects.

You know, you grow up with a term and you've used it your whole life and then you move to another part of the country and people just, I call these conversations, conversations, I call them two-headed conversations where people say,

I moved across country.

I use this term and people looked at me like I had two heads.

I mean, that happened to me.

I grew up in Kentucky and that happened to me with the word tump.

Do you know the word tump?

T-U-M-P.

Gosh, yeah.

I mean, my entire childhood, I knew the word tump, as in don't tump over the canoe, don't tump over that glass of water.

And then I went to school in upstate New York, and I said that to somebody once, don't tump that over.

And everybody laughed at me.