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"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."
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"word": "hog Latin"
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{
"word": "dog Latin"
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{
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"word": "macaronic Latin"
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"note": "wordplay resembling pig Latin",
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"word": "kontinkieli"
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"word": "jeringoso"
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