Youa (maxima) culpa

[Laurence Horn]

>  >
>>  Are there any studies of school-mock-Latin?
>
>I remember reading, from decades ago (maybe an excerpt of Goodbye Mr.
>Chips in my 10th grade reader? or Pat Conroy's "The Lords of
>Discipline"?):
>
>pig
>piggo
>piggere
>squeeli
>gruntum
>
>as a declension.

Surely the principal parts of the verb rather than a (nominal) declension...

Larry
(who figures that the model must surely be the classically suppletive
"ferro, ferre, tuli, latus" for 'to bear', obviously a close relative
of 'to pig')