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It depends on how general you want to be. My first run attempt is: 

while(<>) {
    s{ \b([bcdfghjklmpqrstvwxyz]?)(\w+) }
     { if($1) {$2.$1.'ay'}
       else   {$2."way"} }egix;
    print;
    }

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The problem is that this doesn't correctly treat cases like th, sh, pr, etc. where there's really a compound starting consonant. Maybe, this would be a bit more correct: 

while(<>) {
    s{ \b([bcdfghjklmpqrstvwxyz]*)([aeiou]+)(\w*) }
     { if($1) {$2.$3.$1.'ay'}
       else   {$2.$3."way"} }egix;
    print;
    }

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RE: (2) Pig Latin (another smidge closer)
by ybiC (Prior) on Jul 23, 2000 at 17:35 UTC
    Adding qu| at the front of $1 and removing q from [...] provides support for the "qu" combination.   My first attempted tweak was to add (qu) inside $1's [...] but that hosed things for words like "jumped".

    Bonus points for guessing the cliche phrase I tested this with.  <grin> 

    #!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
while(<>) {
    s{ \b(qu|[bcdfghjklmpnrstvwxyz]*)([aeiou]+)(\w*) }
     { if($1) {$2.$3.$1.'ay'}
       else {$2.$3."way"} }egix;
     print;
     }
# END

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        cheers,
        ybiC
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