Ways of playing with words

[ay1975]

In about 1985, towards the end of my time at primary school, there was a craze among some of my classmates for two ways of playing with words.

One of them was where you take a word and say a rhyme about that word, of the form "Rabbit-bom-babbit, stickle-abbit, five fabbit, five fabbit, stickle-abbit, that's how you spell rabbit". (If the word begins with a vowel, you stick a B or an F on the beginning of it.)

The other was a language called PK, formed by inserting the letters VG into every syllable. For example what became wovgot, and rabbit became ravgabivgit. This meant that kids could hold a conversation without adults being able to understand!

I'd be interested to hear if anyone else remembers either of these crazes!

[longjohnsilver]

Re: Ways of playing with words

omg,is that what my son was doing. i must ring the asylum and get my son released. lol

[Marine Boy]

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I remember playing with words at school, but we had other ideas like backwards names or swapping name initials. Simon Johnson became Nomis Nosnoj or Jimon Sonson.

[Richard1978]

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I remember me & a friend used to nickname people by saying their names backwards to they couldn't tell that we were talking about them.

[Grosh62]

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We used to speak in Swahili (before Peter Kay had thought of it) courtesy of the backs of Daktari collector cards. It was more like Ostrich Swahili but it worked.