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search  Rövarspråket (English: The Robber Language) is a Swedish
language game. It became popular after the books about Kalle
Blomkvist by Astrid Lindgren, where the children use it as a
code, both at play and in solving actual crimes.[1]  It was used
by robbers on the Swedish island Gotland as they didn't want the
Visby Garrison to understand what their plans were.  The
principle is easy enough. Every consonant (spelling matters, not
pronunciation) is doubled, and an o is inserted in-between.
Vowels are left intact. It is quite possible to render the
Rövarspråket version of an English word as well as a Swedish,
e.g.:  sos-tot-u-bob-bob-o-ror-non or sostotubobboborornon  that
syllable chain would mean stubborn. Needless to say, the code is
not very useful in written form, but it can be tough when spoken
by a trained (and thus quick) user. On the other hand, for an
untrained speaker, a word or phrase can often be something of a
tongue-twister or a shib