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ENGLISH WOMEN. SONGS AND "SLANG
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This is a distinction which any wise censorship of literature would keep in mind. With regard to the first kind of words, they surmise Correctional Tribunal of that their very ugliness satisfied, Boulogne has sentenced in their because war--hated consciously or absence by default to one year's sub-consciously--was
ugly. imprisonment, Miss Susan Ryder obscenity satisfied, because the and Miss Majory Bagot, the two words blasphemed sex, even as war English yachtswomen who, ja blasphemed life, which is the child. November last, were alleged to of sex." In the Glossary of War have appropriated silverware, be- slang which makes up the rest of longing to a hotel at Calais, which the Look all such words are omitt- was subsequently found on board ed. their yacht.
Last November the police at Calais, with the permission of the British Consul, made p sudden descent on a little British motor racht and arrested Miss Susan Ryder, aged forty-three, of Twie- kenham, and Miss Marjory Bagot.
The yacht had arrived at Calais two weeks earlier, and the railway employees at the maritime station were astonished to see that the crew consisted of two persons who were obviously women dressed as
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D. R. Weerappali." continued to use long after their origins have been forgotten. Ar- abic, Russian, Turkish, Hindustani, French, Chinese, Spanish, have contributed to soldier and sailor lang. "Blighty," for example, a corruption of the Hindustani word Belati, home; Pronto, hurry "F, is a Spanish word of the same sular War. In 1995 Mr. Edward Fraser and Mr. John Gibbon, made a larger dictionary of Soldier and Sailor Words and Phrases. They, too, omitted the bad words and phrases. You see, like the two ladies who congratulated Dr. John.. son on the chastity of his diction- "This is news to me," said Missary, I looked for them; but I can“ Ryder; in fact, neither Miss not congratulate the modern lexico- The great Bagot nor myself has heard any graphers so sincerely. thing more of cur disagreeable majority of the obscene or profane
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When the women were arrested the yacht was searched, and some of the cutlery and silver ware found on board was alleged to bear the The wonten denied all the allega tions. They were not detained, and they returned to England in their yacht, and it was understood at the time that the case against them meaning, and dates from the Penin Wang Ching Wei, Tonkin & Co.,
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Miss Susan Ryder was afterwards informed by a Press representative of the sentence which has been pass ed on her and Miss Baget in
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"I am curious to know why, if the French authorities contemplar ed any action in regard to the ridiculous charge which, was made against my friend and myself, they did not take it while we were in Calais.
Miss Bagot is now away from England, but I can say for coth of us that we are not worrying.
I have no present intention of going to Boulogne to discuss the matter, and I would like to know why, if an offence is alleged to have
committed in Celaie, should have been tried and sen- tenced in "Boulogne without our knowledge."*
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Rhyming Slang is the dullest of all kinds of slaug. There seems little point in saying "Shove that Cain and Abel nearer instead of hove that table," or in, saying "bale of lead" instead of head. I suspect. Rhyming Slang to be a thieves' pat ter, and to have had its origin in the desire to talk in a which could not be easily under
Sometimes stood if overheard. Rhyming Elang is at the root of otherwise incomprehensible expres sions. For instance, one synonym for "chum" is "china." "This is an. abbreviation of "china plate" rhyming slang for "mata." Techni eal terms suggested a few good slang expressions; for instance, "Gone die," which means mentally weak, and is derived from the"tele- phone signaller's term meaning disconnected. I have compared the two glossaries. The older one is larger because it includes "narai slang as well; and I noticed that while that of Mr. Brophy and Mr. Partridge includes some expres sions that are not in the larger glossary they omit others.
Some of these omissions I regrett- ed. "To beetle off," for example (Air Force slang), suggesting the hum and buzz of the cockchafer, "Got you taped," meaning I've taken your measure, was too good to lose, and so was "a rainbow," an ironical term meaning a rein- forcemeat or recruit arriving after the storm is over. I missed also,. "to chuck a chest" or "to throw one's weight about" (to
and "Who pulled your chain)
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question intended to snub someone intruding on a conversation. "lo read a shirt (to search for lice) kap the genuine imaginative touch that phrase, too, I missed. But such, omissions are small matters. in a book which gives us so much.. The Test of Good Slang.
Of course, most of the slang created during the war originated French in attempts to talk "Napoo" (no more, all gone, finish- ed), "You're late, breakfast na- pac," is, of course, derived from Il n'y a pas de plus, a phrase with which our men were only too sadly familiar. It could also be used in contexts, which made it clear that it meant a particular article much in demand. A cottager who had egga to sell, if not asked for "erfe," would, when asked for two no- 2008, probably produce eggs, and at an estaminet a request for "napoo" would usually procure & glass of wine. A "bongo boosh"? is an obvious and mild corruption; Spirits being forbidden at the front, the usual way of getting round the diffeulty was to ask for café avec: finally "avo came to stand wha Aceneral term to
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