The present study dealt with a sociolinguistic study of the jargon used by secondary schools:
the case of Buye High school pupils .The researcher made an investigation to find out whether
the words and expressions used by those pupils were understandable by any outsider their
reason for using those words and the strategies involved in their new words creation. Fifty
pupils were investigated as the subjects in the field study while five pupils were used in the
pilot study. After the analysis of the answers resulted from the pupils the study revealed
that pupils of Buye High school use jargon associated with their way of living. They create
jargon in order to impede communication to outsiders and to distinguish themselves to the
surrounding environment. They are also strategies involved in the new words creation of the
Buye pupils jargon. Those strategies are: affixation (prefixation suffixation infixation)
coinage borrowing The words and expressions used by those pupils cannot be understood by
outsiders unless he or she is part of the group.
