cat-latin

Updated: July 16, 2025

"It's a wonderful city for scholarship and religion?" "You'd say so, my boy, if you'd seen it. Why, the very sons of the old women who do the washing of the colleges can talk in Latin not good Latin, that I admit, as a critic: dog-Latin cat-Latin, as we used to call it in my undergraduate days." "And Greek?"

Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure