[Ads-l] Antedating of "Pig Latin"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Not "erethay"?  FWIW, my grandmother, who was a child in NYC in the 1890s
and explained pig latin to me, would have said it that way.

JL

On Mon, Sep 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM Shapiro, Fred <
00001ac016895344-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:

> pig Latin (OED, 2., 1896)
>
> 1895 Evening Dispatch (Provo City, Utah) 27 Apr. 1 / 2 (Newspapers.com)
>
> The words are spelled after the style of schoolboy "pig-latin" ... Thus
> the word "there" in "pig-latin" would be "ereth."
>
> Fred Shapiro
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