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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject:
Lexicon</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">A sample
list of lexical items follows the article at the original site (<span style="color: black;"><a href="http://current.com/1vmvu4c">http://current.com/1vmvu4c</a></span>).<br>
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Regards,<br>
Reinhard/Ron<br>
Seattle, USA</p>
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<h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Convicts Use Shakespearean Dialect </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
to Smuggle 'Cawbe', Fool 'Shades'</span></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><br><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">By James Tozer</span><br style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">
Last updated at 5:34 PM on 8th June</span></i>
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</span>You might think that prison officers would be delighted that their
inmates were becoming well-versed in Elizabethan dialect. </p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; font-family: times new roman,serif;">But
far from any self-improving study of the works of Shakespeare, criminals are
instead becoming fluent in thieves' cant, a dialect used by 16th-century rogues
to keep their plans secret. </p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; font-family: times new roman,serif;">Nearly
500 years later, their modern-day counterparts have adopted the slang and
updated it to help them smuggle drugs and other contraband into prisons. </p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; font-family: times new roman,serif;">The
practice was uncovered at Buckley Hall Prison in Rochdale,
when staff noticed that the same phrases were being used in monitored phone
calls and letters between inmates and loved ones. </p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; font-family: times new roman,serif;">The
dialect, thought to originate from medieval gipsies, was used by all manner of
villains in Shakespeare's England,
becoming known as thieves' cant or rogues' cant. </p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; font-family: times new roman,serif;">But
it was thought to have become obsolete until its unexpected revival, believed
to have been led by criminal members of the travelling community. </p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; font-family: times new roman,serif;">The
Ministry of Justice is so worried about the use of the code that it has issued
a security alert to governors at jails in England
and Wales.
</p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; font-family: times new roman,serif;">Examples
of the new thieves' cant include 'chat' or 'onick' meaning heroin; 'cawbe',
meaning crack cocaine; and 'inick', for phone or mobile phone SIM card. </p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; font-family: times new roman,serif;">Inmates
also use normal English in code - 'Bring the children' means to bring drugs,
while the phrase 'Lots of hair on the children' means 'bring lots of drugs'. </p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; font-family: times new roman,serif;">An
insider at the 381-prisoner, category C establishment revealed: 'This is the
most ingenious use of a secret code we have ever come across. </p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">'Elizabethan
cant was only used by a tiny number of people and it is quite amazing that is
has been resurrected in order to buy drugs. Some inmates will try anything to
get contraband into jail.'</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">***<br><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"></span></p>
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