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Yes you guessed it, I am now going to blog about Pig Latin! Ellohay, ymay amenay isway Amanthasay-If you are unfamiliar with this "language", then I shall translate. I said "Hello, my name is Samantha". In order to speak Pig Latin, you must take the first syllable of the word, move it to the end, and then add "ay" to the end of it. There is also a version where instead of taking the whole first syllable, you take just the first letter. It was used for codes as well as just a game in America. The earliest signs of Pig Latin date all the way back to the 1800's. Thomas Jefferson was said to have written Pig Latin in his letters some times. Some English slang like "ixnay" (nix) or "amscray" (scram) is Pig Latin. Sometimes I hear these words in everyday speech, but don't even realize it's Pig Latin. Throughout history it changed until kids really began to develop what is now Pig Latin. It was known as "Dog Latin", "Dog Greek", "hog Greek" and many others. It was basically just known as a made-up language to sound like Latin, but was only just very bad Latin. Letters and sounds were added to regular words just so it sounded Latinesque. A very early form was found in a Shakespeare work. It just goes to show you how much language, made-up or real, can change over the years. And how language seems to be one of those things that just does not die.