“You know how handy it is to have a language that no-one around you can speak?”
“Yes, but we’re stuffed here, aren’t we? The girls speak all of ours except Welsh and you can’t speak that very well”.
“No, but there is another way. When I was a kid in Pyle, we used to use ‘eggy slang’, did you?”
“No, I’ve never heard of ‘eggy slang’, what is it?”
“It’s dead simple, but it should throw everyone here. You just add ‘egg’ before every vowel. Like, er, ‘Eggi weggant teggo geggo teggo thegge teggoilegget’. Get it? ‘I want to go to the toilet’. Have a practice, I won’t be long”.
After he returned, he and Will practiced, and it seemed to work and when Youriko asked them what language they were speaking, Tom said Welsh.
Will had one more surprise for Youriko, which he revealed as they were walk
