TWIL #80 - secret languages

TWIL #80 - secret languages
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Every week, I share something I learned in the previous seven days. I usually find these while I'm putting my weekly newsletter together but somehow, they don't quite fit!

This week I learned that there was a secret British language that helped beat the Nazis in the Channel Islands.

The secret British language that was used to outwit the Nazis
Very few people outside the island know that Jersey has its own language – or that it was cannily used as a clandestine code during German occupation in WW2.

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