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To: Ray76

The Terrible Williamsons called it Cant. I know what cant is and argot and slang and lingo and all that. When a group puts a capital letter on it then it becomes a name that does not necessarily closely reflect the meaning of the uncapitalized word.


55 posted on 08/17/2016 1:58:25 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: arthurus

Do you recall the last names which most of them share. There is one in particular but I can’t remember it. Williamson is probably one of them but not the most common.


56 posted on 08/17/2016 2:07:11 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: arthurus

They may call it “The Cant” yet “The Cant” of American Irish and Scottish tinkers is a cant mutually unintelligible with each other. There are multiple dialects calling themselves “The Cant”.


59 posted on 08/17/2016 2:13:50 PM PDT by Ray76 (Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo!)
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