How to Speak Pig Latin

It was fun to annoy your friends and family by speaking pig latin when you were eight, and it still is! Use it in your e-mail messages to your boss or in your credit card applications - if you dare.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Notebook Papers
• Pencils Or Pens
• Earplugs

1. If a word begins with one or more consonants, move the consonant or consonant cluster to the end of the word.

2. Add the letters "ay" to the end of the word. So "pig" would be "igpay," "porker" would be "orkerpay," and "swine" would be "inesway."

3. Simply add the letters "ay" to the end of the word if it begins with a vowel. Thus "animal" becomes "animal-ay."

Tips & Warnings

• A pig latinism is a pair of words, one in English and the other its pig latin translation, in which the pig latin translation has a meaning in English. Examples are "trash" and "ashtray," as well as "beast" and "East Bay."
• The language varies regionally, so don't be surprised if you hear "way," "hay," or even "yay" tacked onto the end of a word, especially if the word in question begins with a vowel. Thus "oink" could be "oink-way," "oink-hay," or "oink-yay."

on 7/4/2006 Always remember to add the consonants (If there isn't a vowel after the first letter in the word). I didn't add the consonants and no one understood what I was saying all day!

on 11/22/2005 Be careful of what you say. Sometimes people don't pronounce a word in Pig Latin correctly and say a completely different word.