Snow, Bunting & Egg

18: Legend of Ziph

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        • The secret is this — (and the grandeur of simplicity at any rate it has) — repeat the vowel or diphthong of every syllable, prefixing to the vowel so repeated the letter G. Thus, for example: Shall we go away in an hour? Three hours we have already staid. This in Ziph becomes: Shagall wege gogo agaxoagay igin agan hougour? Threegee hougours wege hagave agalreageadygy stagaid.

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          Snow, Bunting & EggBy Alexander Dubov, Dmitry 'Mitya' Karelin, Taras Molotilin