For those of us across the water (well, okay, for me), what does 'chav'
itself just mean?
Doug
On 24-Apr-06, at 11:01 AM, Edmund Hardy wrote:
> re: Chavs
>
> To Dominic's parsing I'd add that I think that when 'chav' broadens to
> its widest sense, it means, implicitly, the poor, because then it
> refers literally to poor taste, the distinctions of the poor.
>
> E.
>
>
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