LekhoriLekhoriLanguage, especially language peculiar to a particular group, field, or region; jargon or a dialect.
[...] I have Thoughts to tarry a ſmall Matter in Town, to learn ſomewhat of your Lingo firſt, before I croſs the Seas.
An Aboriginal language.
Granny Ava was the link: the last heathen of the family to speak the lingo fluently, before the Church waltzed in and jammed the Lord's Prayer in Granny Ruth's twelve-year-old mouth instead.
A surname.
From Latin lingua (“language”) + -o (diminutive suffix).
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