Words beginning with consonants would change as follows: the word “hello” would become ello-hay, the word “duck” would become uck-day and the term “Pig Latin” would become ig-pay Atin-lay. Words beginning with consonant clusters would change as follows: the word “switch” would become itch-sway, the word “glove” would become ove-glay and the term “fruit smoothie” would become uit-fray oothie-smay.
For example: the word “it” becomes it-yay, the word “egg” becomes egg-yay and the word “ultimate” becomes ultimate-yay. This also holds true for the personal pronoun “I”, which becomes I-yay.
If a word starts with the letter “Y” it is treated like a consonant and is moved to the end of the word, as usual. For example, the word “yellow” becomes ellow-yay. The normal rules apply if “Y” is the second letter in a two letter word, such as “my”, which becomes y-may. However, if the letter “Y” comes at the end of a consonant cluster, like in the word “rhythm”, it is treated like a vowel and does not move to the end of the word. For example, “rhythm” becomes ythm-rhay.
For example, the word “bedroom” becomes ed-bay oom-ray rather than “edroom-bay”, which is more obvious. Another example is the word “toothbrush”, which becomes ooth-tay ush-bray rather than “oothbrush-tay”.
Learning Pig Latin with a friend will allow you to have all kinds of secret conversations. For example, you can invite them over to play video games after school without anyone else knowing, or comment on how disgusting your broccoli is without insulting your mother! Pig Latin can be tricky to get the hang of, so you’ll have to practice a lot to get it perfect. Try speaking it whenever you and your friend are together, at lunch or after school. You can also write coded text messages and emails to each other in Pig Latin, for extra practice.
For words beginning with a vowel, some Pig Latin varieties add the word “yay” rather than “way” to the end of a word. For example, the word “ocean” would become ocean-yay rather than “ocean-way” and the word “inbox” would become inbox-yay rather than “inbox-way”. Another variation is to add the letter “Y” to the beginning of a word that starts with a vowel, in addition to adding “yay” to the end. For example, the word “extra” would become yextra-yay and the word “orange” would become yorange-yay. Another variation entails adding the suffix “ay” rather than “way” to a word that begins with a vowel but ends in a consonant. For example, “after” would become after-ay rather than “after-way” and the word “olives” would become olives-ay rather than “olives -way”. According to Wikipedia, just adding “ay” to a word beginning with a vowel is also acceptable. This variation clears up the confusion of added consonants (e. g. wondering if the speaker means “wit” or “it”). You might want to speak one of these variants of Pig Latin instead of the variant taught in this article. Using æ instead of ay is a good idea. It makes it sound more like latin, and it makes the same sound as ay. However, the main drawback is that it is hard to type it and hard to write it.
What’s up? = At’s-whay up-way? How are you? = Ow-hay are-way ou-yay? What are you doing later? = At-whay are-way ou-yay oing-day ater-lay? I love you. = I-way ove-lay ou-yay. I have a secret = I-way ave-hay a-way ecret-say. The guy next to me has toilet paper stuck to his shoe = E-thay uy-gay ext-nay o-tay e-may as-hay oilet-tay aper-pay uck-stay o-tay is-hay oe-shay. Can you speak Pig Latin? It’s really not that hard. You should try it = An-cay ou-yay eak-spay Ig-pay Atin-lay? It’s-way eally-ray ot-nay at-thay ard-hay. Ou-yay ould-shay y-tray it-way. Holy cow! My goldfish just exploded! = Oly-hay ow-cay! Y-may old-gay ish-fay ust-jay exploded-way!
