wikipedia gives the outlines.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chav
'tis shameful, though, the whole appellation business. I think it's
part of the "us" and "them" way the English have of differentiating
themselves.
Roger
On 4/25/06, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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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> Is that the flesh made word
> or is that the flesh-made word?
>
> Fred Wah
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