Love Island: What Is Double Dutch Language And How Is Angel Swift Fluent In It?
Double Dutch is a fictional language known for sounding incomprehensible to anyone who does not understand its rules or logic. It's a popular way for children and adults to speak to each other in code.
After Boris Vidovic told Angel he can speak Slovenian, Croatian, English, Spanish and a bit of German, Angel explained that she can speak the 'made up language'. She wasn't flexing about being bilingual in an official sense, but she did reveal she can speak fluent gibberish – much like most of the boys in the villa.
The Double Dutch alphabet is the same as the English one, but the secret language uses extra letters to create words that sound like made up versions of the English ones.
W - 'duvagub-buvagle-u-va-gu'
So the name 'Mary' would be 'Ma-va-gar-ra-va-ga-ry'.
To say 'fine, thank you' would be 'fi-va-gi-ne, th-va-gh-ank y-va-gyou'.
If only the girls could speak to each other in Double Dutch to exchange notes about the boys' bad behaviour, especially from the likes of Harrison Solomon, Harry Cooksley and Dejon Noel-Williams, we might have saved a lot of heartache.
Nikki Peach is a writer at Grazia UK, working across entertainment, TV and news. She has also written for the i, i-D and the New Statesman Media Group and covers all things pop culture for Grazia (treating high and lowbrow with equal respect).
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