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# TWIL #80 - secret languages
- URL: https://www.mattrutherford.co.uk/twil-80-secret-languages/
- Published: 2025-07-20T05:00:40.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-20T05:00:41.000Z
- Author: Matt
- Tags: TWIL

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.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel%5FIslands?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk)

[The secret British language that was used to outwit the NazisVery 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.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/c2/2e/c22ecd6b-9412-4701-b914-97051141e207/content/images/icon/apple-touch-icon-17.png)BBCOliver Berry![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/c2/2e/c22ecd6b-9412-4701-b914-97051141e207/content/images/thumbnail/p0g0tw5h.jpg)](https://www.bbc.co.uk/travel/article/20230716-jerrais-the-secret-british-language-that-was-used-to-outwit-the-nazis?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk)

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