Legend of Spud Murphy Legend of Spud Murphy The Legend of Spud Murphy is part of a series called "Eoin Colfer's legend of ...", written by the Irish author Eoin Colfer, author of the best-selling series "Artemis Fowl". The book was illustrated by Glenn McCoy. The series talks about two brothers: Will, who is nine years old and loves action man and Marty who is 10 years old. There are three books in the series so far: "Suddenly, a shadow fell across my brother. . . It was Spud. She had appeared without a sound, like a ninja librarian." Will and Marty live in
Back slang words spoken phonemically backwards. English frequently makes use of diphthongs, which is an issue for back slang since diphthongs cannot be reversed. The resulting fix slightly alters the traditional back slang. An example is "trousers" and its diphthong "ou", which is replaced with "wo" in the back slang version "reswort". Back slang is said to be used in prisons by inmates to make it harder for prison wardens to listen into prisoners' conversations and find out what they were talking about. This use of back slang was highlighted in the 9 June 2010 episode of "Crimewatch Roadshow". Back slang has