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Needs more detail about how it is used. Is it for any initial vowel? Equinox ◑ 23:43, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

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"Used in the game of Pig Latin. "please be quiet or I'll cry" becomes "ease-play e-bay iet-quay or-way I'll-way y-cray""

This is not a great entry. Firstly it doesn't explain how, why or where the suffix is used (it should explain that it attaches to certain vowels, or whatever). Secondly, this isn't an actual suffix, really, is it? It's just a sound or noise. It has no meaning and no connection to the grammar/part of speech of the thing it attaches to. Equinox ◑ 00:01, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

Strangely enough, there is a suffix, but not for this. DonnanZ (talk) 20:42, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

Keep. "doesn't explain": Is a matter for WT:RFC. "actual suffix": en.wt uses linguistic terms very loosely (e.g. "derived terms" not only for derivates but also for compounds, or suffix for terms others called neoklassisches Formativ n (rare)). --幽霊四 (talk) 02:12, 7 February 2021 (UTC)

Delete. A game of Pig Latin does not an English suffix make. Hit-way the highway-way. Facts707 (talk) 02:26, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

Keep and clean up. Quite certain it could be attested. And where else would it belong? Pig Latin isn't a language, which makes this English. DAVilla 19:32, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

That's no kind of logic. Suppose we play a slightly different game of reversing words ("?uoy era woh"): those aren't English words either, at least from the perspective of creating dictionary entries. Equinox ◑ 11:53, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

Sure, but could that be attested? Not likely. Consider that Pig Latin is the source of ixnay, amscray, and itshay. DAVilla 09:45, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

Delete per nom and Facts707. Imetsia (talk) 21:04, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Deleted. bd2412 T 02:02, 13 October 2021 (UTC)