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Date
16150 16160
Lexicographer
Lexicon title
A Canting Tounge
Transcription source
Hampshire Record Office MS 44M69/G3/159, as quoted by Adam Fox, Oral and Literate Culture in England 1500-1700 (Oxford University Press, 2002): 35.
Text type
manuscript
Genre
General English Dictionaries and Glossaries
Subject area
canting
Summary
John Newbolt, the governor of Bridewell at Winchester, made a glossary of 107 canting words
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: gloss
sample: "A penny a 'hyrow', a halfpenney a 'pushera', a groat a 'gorisha', five pence 'shogh hayra', five shillings 'pany shellony' and twenty shillings 'tromen'" (Fox, 35)
sample: "A penny a 'hyrow', a halfpenney a 'pushera', a groat a 'gorisha', five pence 'shogh hayra', five shillings 'pany shellony' and twenty shillings 'tromen'" (Fox, 35)
