16.132, Media: Polari - The Gay Slang

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Subject: 16.132, Media: Polari - The Gay Slang

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Date: 17-Jan-2005
From: Mark Jones < markjjones at hotmail.com >
Subject: Polari - The Gay Slang

	
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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 08:27:08
From: Mark Jones < markjjones at hotmail.com >
Subject: Polari - The Gay Slang


The revival of Polari, the 'gay slang', is reported in a story in the
British daily broadsheet The Guardian (17/01/2005):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1391811,00.html

Mark J. Jones
Department of Linguistics
University of Cambridge
mjj13 at cam.ac.uk
http://kiri.ling.cam.ac.uk/mark/
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics





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