Nicholas Twit is not just a very young private detective. He is also a user of unusual words. This all started when he noticed that the wonderful English language didn’t have a word for some situations.

Here’s an example.

Nicholas found that some of his adult relations treated him like a baby even though he was 8 years old. They acted as though Nicholas was ignorant. He’s a child therefore he knows nothing. I’m an adult therefore I know everything.

This was wrong. Kids can know lots of things and learn even more. Nicholas looked at his superior relations and thought they were like pigs, all talking at once. Oink, oink, oink.

So Nicholas called any adult who considered children to be stupid a noink.

There are quite a few Twit-Speak words in the books. Collect them all and use what you like. Twit-Speak can be prif. And Book 2 has some prif Twit anagrams. Unscramble the letters in the words of Crooks he'll mesh and you'll get a famous detective's name. Get it? That's an anagram. Try unscrambling I am the fat goose and you'll get a famous Sherlockian saying which means "There is a new mystery to solve". The saying begins The game is .... Good luck.

Say, are you an edhen? Or maybe a hened? Or are you a carleton? There are many people who have become a scruncher, a dotnit, a swizza and a swozza. You can discover all these people when you read each Twit Speak section in the Nicholas Twit books. If you don't, you may have to say "Lootle!"