Papple

by Jun 26, 2018Linguistics

True story I just have to share somewhere: I recently asked a precious and generous and godly and intelligent family friend if she had “Apple Pay,” the iPhone-based payment system, so I could quickly remunerate her for something she’d just given my wife. She just stared at me. She thought I was using Pig Latin—applepay—and she didn’t know what “Papple” was, or why she would be expected to have it. This error that only a clever person could make has brought me no end of delight.

(It turns out that papple *is* a thing, but only barely.)

(Language is so fun and cool!)

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