In 1962, American Speech published Family Words in English, by Allen Walker Read, which was reprinted in VERBATIM Vol. I, No. 4, ( 1975 ). The article is a classic, probably the first on the subject to appear in a scholarly journal, though there are other informal references to family language, some of which are documented by Dickson in his Bibliography.
Family Worlds in English, by Allen Walker Read, was published by American Speech in 1962 and later reprinted in VERBATIM Vol. I, No. 4, ( 1975 ). The classic article was one of the first on the subject to appear in a scholarly journal.