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
More information about the Ads-l
mailing list