Date:  Sun, 27 Jul 1997 18:48:30 -0400
From:  David Bergdahl <bergdahl[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OAK.CATS.OHIOU.EDU>
Subject: Re: boro-talk?

On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, Gregory {Greg} Downing wrote:

> In a literary document set in the late 1890s, there is a snatch of a
> children's "secret language" that a colleague of mine is trying to source.
> It is a simplified variant of pig-latin where you add -boro to the end of
> every word, apparently so your younger siblings (or whoever else doesn't
> know the lingo) can't follow what you're saying:
>
> "Goneboro toboro lookboro atboro aboro houseboro.... Becauseboro theboro
> landboro lordboro willboro putboro usboro outboro."

Look at a critical edition of Joyce's <Portrait. . .> in which a fragment
of this children's lang is used; I remember seeing a note to that effect
in Anderson's edition.

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