Talk:Back slang

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Possible citation

http://orion.math.iastate.edu/burkardt/wordplay/back_slang.html -- possible citation — Preceding unsigned comment added by The Wednesday Island (talk • contribs) 13:48, 12 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Is this backslang?

There's this quote from Terry Pratchett's Hogfather that seems related:

It's a sad and terrible thing that high-born folk really have thought that the servants would be totally fooled if spirits were put into decanters that were cunningly labelled backwards. And also throughout history the more politically conscious butler has taken it on trust, and with rather more justification, that his employers will not notice if the whisky is topped up with eniru.

84.102.146.251 (talk) 09:48, 25 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Phonemically or lexically backwards

Is back slang always derived by phonemically inverted a word? Is it not a simple reversal of the letters? For the only example given here, yob, it might be argued that the two possibilities coincide. But take other examples from the Wiktionary : Is yenom really supposed to be pronounced /ˈinʌm/? https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Costermongers%27_back_slang Jpmaterial (talk) 08:54, 24 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]