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# Pig Latin
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Welcome to Pig Latin on Exercism's Elixir Track.
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If you need help running the tests or submitting your code, check out `HELP.md`.
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## Introduction
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Your parents have challenged you and your sibling to a game of two-on-two basketball.
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Confident they'll win, they let you score the first couple of points, but then start taking over the game.
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Needing a little boost, you start speaking in [Pig Latin][pig-latin], which is a made-up children's language that's difficult for non-children to understand.
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This will give you the edge to prevail over your parents!
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[pig-latin]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_latin
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## Instructions
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Your task is to translate text from English to Pig Latin.
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The translation is defined using four rules, which look at the pattern of vowels and consonants at the beginning of a word.
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These rules look at each word's use of vowels and consonants:
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- vowels: the letters `a`, `e`, `i`, `o`, and `u`
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- consonants: the other 21 letters of the English alphabet
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## Rule 1
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If a word begins with a vowel, or starts with `"xr"` or `"yt"`, add an `"ay"` sound to the end of the word.
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For example:
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- `"apple"` -> `"appleay"` (starts with vowel)
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- `"xray"` -> `"xrayay"` (starts with `"xr"`)
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- `"yttria"` -> `"yttriaay"` (starts with `"yt"`)
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## Rule 2
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If a word begins with a one or more consonants, first move those consonants to the end of the word and then add an `"ay"` sound to the end of the word.
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For example:
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- `"pig"` -> `"igp"` -> `"igpay"` (starts with single consonant)
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- `"chair"` -> `"airch"` -> `"airchay"` (starts with multiple consonants)
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- `"thrush"` -> `"ushthr"` -> `"ushthray"` (starts with multiple consonants)
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## Rule 3
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If a word starts with zero or more consonants followed by `"qu"`, first move those consonants (if any) and the `"qu"` part to the end of the word, and then add an `"ay"` sound to the end of the word.
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For example:
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- `"quick"` -> `"ickqu"` -> `"ay"` (starts with `"qu"`, no preceding consonants)
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- `"square"` -> `"aresqu"` -> `"aresquay"` (starts with one consonant followed by `"qu`")
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## Rule 4
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If a word starts with one or more consonants followed by `"y"`, first move the consonants preceding the `"y"`to the end of the word, and then add an `"ay"` sound to the end of the word.
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Some examples:
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- `"my"` -> `"ym"` -> `"ymay"` (starts with single consonant followed by `"y"`)
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- `"rhythm"` -> `"ythmrh"` -> `"ythmrhay"` (starts with multiple consonants followed by `"y"`)
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## Source
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### Created by
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- @DoggettCK
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### Contributed to by
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- @alarregoity
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- @angelikatyborska
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- @Cohen-Carlisle
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- @devonestes
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- @moxley
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- @neenjaw
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- @sotojuan
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### Based on
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The Pig Latin exercise at Test First Teaching by Ultrasaurus - https://github.com/ultrasaurus/test-first-teaching/blob/master/learn_ruby/pig_latin/ |