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Difference between Dog Latin and Pig Latin

dog Latinbad or inferior Latin:

  • They [speeches] are chiefly made up of extracts from the common school collection … sprinkled with scraps of dog Latin.

pig Latina jargon formed by rearranging the syllables in a word:

  • The great thing about speaking pig Latin is that it’s not simply a question of learning a new vocabulary.

Note: Neither expression correlates in meaning with the phrase thieves’ Latin—(arch.) the cant of thieves:

  • I … saw a light inside, and heard two words of thieves’ Latin.