pig Latin
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- A type of wordplay in which (English) words are altered by moving the leading phonetic of a word to the end and appending -ay [eɪ̯], except when the word begins with a vowel, in which case "-way" [weɪ̯] is suffixed with no leading phonetic change. {| class="examples floatright" style="background-color: var(--wikt-palette-paleblue,#f8f9fa); border: 1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1); border-collapse:separate; padding: 5px; width: 18em"
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"please be quiet or I'll cry" becomes "ease-play e-bay iet-quay or-way I'll-way y-cray"
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jeringoso
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