Geringoso

Geringoso is a language game using the Spanish language played in Argentina. It is similar to Pig Latin in English.

To speak Geringoso, you take each syllable of a word and break it up. Then you add the letter P and the vowel in the preceding syllable.

For example:

• Perro (dog) -> Pe-Rro -> PepeRropo

• Gato (cat) -> Ga-To -> Gapatopo

Geringoso is commonly used as a "secret" language by schoolchildren, at least until they realize that their parents went to school once too.

In another Spanish-speaking countries, similar games prepend the same syllable , ti, for instance, giving tipetirro and tigatito for the above examples.

''See also: Pig Latin, Language game, Variety (linguistics