Michael Jackson--speak

[Richard A. Spears]

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From: "Gerald Cohen" <gcohen at UMR.EDU>; "Gerald Cohen"
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Subject: Re: Michael Jackson--speak
>
>    Richard Spears, 3/5/03 wrote of Michael Jackson's word
"spabooks":
>
> >I think it's a disguise of _spooks_.
> >
> >ADD: It's a piglatinish kind of wordplay called
> >ubby-dubby.
> >
> >Eg. Pabig Labatabun
> >
> >>
> >>  RAS
> >>
>
>
>     Would there be any scholarly literature about this
ubby-dubby wordplay?
>
> Gerald Cohen

Ubby dubby is from ZOOM, a children's television program of
the 1970s, PBS, I think.
I do not recall ever seeing anything but mention in academic
writing.

RAS