# Ig-Pay Atin-Lay... or something like that

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 6, 2003, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ig-pay-atin-lay-or-something-like-that/173532 "2003-05-06T22:42:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![vl\_mungo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@vl\_mungo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vl_mungo)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ig-pay-atin-lay-or-something-like-that/173532/1 "2003-05-06T22:42:08Z")

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This may have been discussed before… the SMDB search won’t find the word “pig”, for some reason.  
Anyway… what/where/who is the origin of Pig Latin?

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**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ig-pay-atin-lay-or-something-like-that/173532/2 "2003-05-06T23:32:32Z")

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I’m ur-shay it was just a bunch of ids-kay talking onsense-nay. You never made up your own words or languages as a kid?

I bet pig latin was invented by lots of groups of kids independently and just caught on over the ears-yay.