Louchébem
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' or ' () is Parisian and Lyonnaise butchers' (French ) slang, similar to Pig Latin and Verlan. It originated in the mid-19th century and was in common use until the 1950s.
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' or ' () is Parisian and Lyonnaise butchers' (French ) slang, similar to Pig Latin and Verlan. It originated in the mid-19th century and was in common use until the 1950s.
==Process== The word-creation process resembles that of , , and , in that existing words are camouflaged according to a set of rules. Strictly speaking, is a more rigid variety of in which the ending is obligatory. substitutes for the consonant or consonant cluster at the beginning of the word, or, if the word begins with an or a vowel, the second syllable; the initial consonant is then reattached to the end of the word along with a suffix particular to the argot: , , , , , or in the case of louchébem, .
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Louchébem” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.