Does anyone know the origins of the secret language known locally as Haigy-Paigy?

Anyone even heard of Haigy-Paigy?

Hi there, when I was young I lived at Pitsmoor, Hagi Pagi was about then, circa late 40s - 50s, can you remember how it went???:rant:

Anyone even heard of Haigy-Paigy?

No because its secret shhhhhhhhh. :D

To be fair I've never heard of it but it sounds very interesting.

Hello taffy124,

I was beginning to think nobody had heard of it...tis suppose to be secret language though:hihi:

My mother speaks it and so does my 13 year old niece now. You put the phrase 'hay' or 'gay' in front (or before) every vowel in the word I think. I've tried and just don't get it, but I can pick bits out when I hear it. Mostly though it just sounds like double-dutch to me.

My sisters and myself often speak haigy paigy, especially when we don't want other family members to know what we are on about. My OH gets quite annoyed with it all :hihi:

we called it dog language adding way removing the first letter of a word etc.soooo. Iway eesay ouyay is I see you :loopy: Its been years since i did that :cool:

Iway eesay ouyay is I see you

Aha! That's Pig Latin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_Latin) (which, incidently, is a different thing to Dog Latin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_Latin)).

Hi there, when I was young I lived at Pitsmoor, Hagi Pagi was about then, circa late 40s - 50s, can you remember how it went???:rant:Hi Taffy 124 I have never heard of this I lived at Pitsmoor as young man ,was it spoken a lot? where abouts in Pits moor did you live Taffy?Cheers Arthur.

Aha! That's Pig Latin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_Latin) (which, incidently, is a different thing to Dog Latin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_Latin)).

Good call maggi. The origins are there

Good call maggi.

Oureyay elcomeway ;)

But - is this the same as Haigy Paigy?

Oureyay elcomeway ;)

But - is this the same as Haigy Paigy?

Sounds like an April 1st post this with Aighi Paighi, Ubbi Dubbi and Arpy Darpy. The origins of double-dutch is there also. Your wikipedia link classifies such languages as Gibberish...how dare they, it makes absolute sense to those that can speak it... and infuriates those that can't (me included):hihi:

we used to speak it in the 60,s at woodthorpe school,drove the teachers nuts, sometimes if i visit my cousin out in skeggy we talk it to wind up the non speakers :hihi:

we called it dog latin at school during the late 50s early 60s my username is made up of the language, if you can understand it you cane work out my name phailig paigywegell
but it was always a laugh

phailig

we called it dog language adding way removing the first letter of a word etc.soooo. Iway eesay ouyay is I see you :loopy: Its been years since i did that :cool:

You've lost me!

Yes I spoke it in the late 50s when I lived at Richmond we also called it dog latin .:hihi:

Aha! That's Pig Latin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_Latin) (which, incidently, is a different thing to Dog Latin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_Latin)).
yaygess agi nago baygothe paygig lagatagin agand dogog lagatagin
esyay iway onay othbay
he he drove my mother mad

I can remember my cousins talking in dog latin, in the 60's, my mother used to clean & cook at my uncles house one day a week, and he had 4 sons I think the 2 eldest had left home but it was the two youngest (twins) that spoke the lingo. they talked quite quick so nobody could understand them,

the dog latin that I can remember was...you put a.g. in the front of every vowel.
eg. dagog lagatagin (dog latin)
cal

My Mom and Dad used to speak in Aigy Paigy when I was a kid in the 60s. They thought it was foolproof but it didn't take me and my sister long to work it out but we never let on. It was great for finding out where the Xmas presents were hidden.
Yaigou daigon't faigind maiganaigy paigeopaigle whaigo caigan spaigeak aigit thaigese daigays.

I think that my wife speaks this strange language, as i have never understood a word she has spoken, lol

I can speak haigy,learned it in the 70,s,though i dont know how?? Just tried to relay it to my daughter but she said i was mad !!! Cant seem to teach it.....must be either you can or you cant eh?

I used pig Latin at school--years later I was on a bus with two kids in the seat behind me, talking about one of their mates with it--little did they know I understood everything they said!

The other secret language, where something (like ag) is put between the vowels of words, is similar to what the French call Javanese. Such things are by no means restricted to UK!