"This clever play on words involves taking the first consonant or group of consonants and moving them to the end of the word, then adding some sort of vowel sound such as 'ay', to confuse listeners. For example, the word 'dog' would become 'ogday' while 'speak' would become 'eakspay'. Youngsters trying to covertly say 'Let's watch that movie tonight' would come out with 'Et'slay atchway atthay oviemay onighttay'."
"The '67' craze was one of the biggest global fads of 2025, leaving many adults bewildered and frustrated. It is a slang term, spoken aloud as 'six seven', accompanied by an arm gesture that looks like someone weighing something in both hands. It has no real meaning but spawned countless social media videos and became so prolific across schools, teachers resorted to banning the phrase."
"A trio of academics from Australia, the US and South Korea have written an article explaining that '67' is 'only the latest example of these longstanding practices'. 'As media scholars who study children's culture, we didn't view the meme with bewilderment or exasperation,' they wrote on The Conversation. 'Instead, we thought back to our own childhoods on three different continents and all the secret languages we spoke.'"
'67' became a global 2025 slang fad spoken as 'six seven' with an arm gesture resembling someone weighing objects. The term carried no clear meaning but generated countless social media videos and reached such ubiquity in schools that teachers banned it. The fad fits into a longstanding pattern of children inventing covert languages and codes to communicate privately. Historical equivalents include playful word games like Pig Latin, which moves initial consonants to the end and adds 'ay' (dog→ogday; speak→eakspay; Let's watch that movie tonight→Et'slay atchway atthay oviemay onighttay), and mysterious stylised notebook symbols drawn with 14 straight lines that rose in popularity in the 1990s.
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