Sunday, December 18, 2016

Sociolect ... Private

Today's word is "sociolect" ... SOH-see-uh-lekt ... a variety of a language used by a particular social group; a social dialect. (Dictionary.com)

Private
The group was gathered round,
A circle tight and holy,
Speaking words of peace,
To each other, solely.

Their words were understood,
A sociolect of comfort,
They circled joyously,
As they'd each to each exhort.

But outside of the circle,
Were the hungry and the cold,
Who could not understand at all,
Those inside the fold.

Anne Selleck 
Copyright 2016

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