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“It’s as easy as anything,” Rosy said. “You take off the first sound of a word and put it on the end with an ay added to it like MAN—an-may. BOY—oy-bay. GIRL—irl-gay. When a word is just one sound like I or O, or when it begins with a vowel like EEL or US or OUT, you add way, like I—I-way. O—O-way. EEL—eel-way. US—us-way. OUT—out-way.”
Thus Maida could say to Rosie: “Are-way ou-yay oing-gay o-tay ool-schay o-tay ay-day?” and mean simply, “Are you going to school to-day?” And sometimes to Maida’s grief, Rosie would reply roguishly: “O-nay I-way am-way oing-gay o-tay ook-hay ack-jay ith-way Arthur-way.” Billy Potter was finally invited to join the W.M.N.T.’s too. He never missed a meeting if he could possibly help it.
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