Notes l |
"irish travellers' cant", "irish tinkers' cant" (rish: caint = «speech»), gammon, gammoch, shelta (= «the old thing»), sheldru, shelru, tarri, minkyers' tari, minklers' tari, bawconi jib, hinditemeskri jib, 'bog latin'; speakers: mincéir, tinncéir, mínkyeery, "irish tinkers" ; mixed cryptic language; morphology & syntax from [52=] English + cryptic lexicon partially from [50=] Gaeilge bilingual < [52=] English |