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pig Latin noun

  • 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: #f8f9fa;border: 1px solid #a2a9b1; border-collapse:separate;-moz-box-sizing: content-box; margin: 6px 0 16px 23px; padding: 5px; width: 18em;" ! style="text-align: left; border-bottom: 1px solid #DDD"
  • Examples |- | style="font-size:100%;padding-left: 10px;" | "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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