Igpay Atinlay

Mark A Mandel mam at THEWORLD.COM
Tue Mar 11 19:17:16 UTC 2003


On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, sagehen wrote:

#~~~~~~~~
#The pig latin of my late 30's eastern Nebraska childhood would have had a W
#before the AY-suffix on words beginning with a vowel. Thus June Smith is a
#pig would be "unejay ithsmay isway away igpay."
#I'm quite sure I remember that my mother, born 1905, also had known this
#version from her early childhood in St. Louis.

Ditto NYC 50s/60s.

-- Mark A. Mandel



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