Media: 'Chavs' and others make it into the dictionary
| Submitter: |
Mark Jones
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| Submitter Email: | markjjones@hotmail.com |
| Linguistic Field(s): |
General Linguistics Historical Linguistics Sociolinguistics Lexicography |
| Media Body: |
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@cam.ac.uk |
| Issue Number: | 16.1827 |
| Date Posted: | June 09, 2005 |
