16.1827, Media: 'Chavs' and others make it into the dictionary

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Subject: 16.1827, Media: 'Chavs' and others make it into the dictionary

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Date: 09-Jun-2005
From: Mark Jones < markjjones at hotmail.com >
Subject: 'Chavs' and others make it into the dictionary

	
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Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 15:53:08
From: Mark Jones < markjjones at hotmail.com >
Subject: 'Chavs' and others make it into the dictionary



The following stories report on some of the new (and old) words included in
the latest edition of the Collins English Dictionary, including the almost
ubiquitous 'chav' and 'wanksta' (a new one on me, but fills a much needed
slot).

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1502190,00.html

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/050609/344/fkqgi.html

Mark Jones


Mark J. Jones
Department of Linguistics
University of Cambridge
http://kiri.ling.cam.ac.uk/mark
mjj13 at cam.ac.uk


Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Lexicography
                     Sociolinguistics




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