Wednesday, June 16, 2021

Names I always think are Pig Latin

  • Amway
  • Apple Pay
  • Enola Gay
  • Yrannosaurustay X-ray

2 comments:

Bruce Charlton said...

Yes, they do seem like 'Backslang' (as we called it).

And then there is the (supposedly) longest real word in English - Antidisestablishmentarianismway. It too seems like backslang.

Although kids prefer Upercalifragilisticexpialidociousway - the word was, allegedly, invented just to be long.

(Fairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogochllanway is not, of course, in English.)

Wm Jas Tychonievich said...

I don't know, Bruce, some of those alleged "words" really make me underway.

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