Social Fabric is crowdsourcing unique words and phrases that have evolved in your family for an upcoming illustrated collection.

Every family invents new bits of language. Maybe, like some dear friends of ours, you need a code word for fatigue so that you don’t alarm the kids while you alert your spouse to your situation and the word morphs into the phrase fat tigre.

Maybe your youngest sister misheard the lyrics to that one song you all love and her new lyrics become one of the family’s most-beloved sayings.

Maybe you speak three languages at home and have blended/invented words and phrases that bloom in the spaces where those languages meet.

Maybe you make up new words altogether.

Send us your most interesting family language and its backstory. We’ll be illustrating a collection of favorites in our forthcoming book.