[citation needed] Examples of this predate even Shakespeare, whose 1598 play, Love's Labour's Lost, includes a reference to dog Latin:[2] Costard: Go to; thou hast it ad dungill, at the fingers' ends, as they say.
Another early mention of the name was in Putnam's Magazine in May 1869: "I had plenty of ammunition in reserve, to say nothing, Tom, of our pig Latin.
The song, called "Pig Latin Love", is followed by the subtitle "I-Yay Ove-Lay oo-yay earie-day".
In an earlier (1934) episode, Three Little Pigskins, Larry Fine attempts to impress a woman with his skill in Pig Latin, but it turns out that she knows it, too.
A few months prior in 1934, in the Our Gang short film Washee Ironee, Spanky tries to speak to an Asian boy by using Pig Latin.
[5] Ginger Rogers sang a verse of "We're in the Money" in pig Latin in an elaborate Busby Berkeley production number in the film Gold Diggers of 1933.
Examples are: For ease of speaking Pig Latin, it can be chosen to not change the way words sound if they begin with a vowel.
Pronunciation of some words may be a little difficult for beginners, but people can easily understand Pig Latin with practice.
For example, a conversation between two people in the presence of an unwanted other may consist of: "ehay isway eryvay illysay" = "he is very silly".
In the German-speaking area, varieties of Pig Latin include Kedelkloppersprook [de], which originated around Hamburg harbour, and Mattenenglisch that was used in the Matte, the traditional working-class neighborhood of Bern.
[15] A characteristic of the Mattenenglisch Pig Latin is the complete substitution of the first vowel by i, in addition to the usual moving of the initial consonant cluster and the adding of ee.
Converting the sentence "I love you" ("Minä rakastan sinua") would result in "konä mintti kokastan rantti konua sintti".
The term "verlan" is an autological example of the process it describes, derived from inverting the syllables of l'envers, meaning "reverse".
Documented initially in the 19th century, Verlan was used as a coded language by criminals in effort to conceal illicit activities from others, including police.