different between lects vs jects

English

lects

From projects by shortening.

jects pl (plural only)

(US, informal) A multi-story low-income housing development.
- 1991, Alex Kotlowitz, There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America, Anchor Books (1992), ?ISBN, page 264:
  A few days later, Pharoah, now eleven, told a friend: "I worry about dying, dying at a young age, while you're little. I'll be thinking about I want to get out of the jects. […]
- 2011, Garrett S. King, Something to Live For, Xlibris (2011), ?ISBN, page 116:
  Olander grew up around the “jects,” but wasn't born there; he actually lived about two blocks away in a three-story house with his mother and younger siblings.

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