Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Slang in the news: Prisoners resurrect 500-year-old slang

The British Ministry of Justice is warning the country's prisons that prisoners have taken to using a 16th-century slang to hide talk about drug deals... Officials said they determined that "chat" and "onick" are being used as code for heroin, while "cawbe" denotes crack cocaine and "inick" is code for a cell phone or a SIM card...

The rest of the article is available here.

-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com)

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