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pig Latin

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Etymology

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"Latin" comes from the language of Latin (though it is not linguistically related; that is an intentional misnomer), but the origin of "pig" is unknown.

Noun

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pig Latin (uncountable)

  1. A type of wordplay in which (English) words are altered by moving the leading phonetic of a word to the end and appending -ay [eɪ̯], except when the word begins with a vowel, in which case "-way" [weɪ̯] is suffixed with no leading phonetic change.
Examples

"please be quiet or I'll cry" becomes "ease-play e-bay iet-quay or-way I'll-way y-cray"

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