Is Polari a variant of Romany, or is Romany just an ingredient in Polari?
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> Can anyone point me to a good dictionary
> of gypsy/Rom/Zingali?
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> In fact, *anything other than George Borrow's +Romano Lavo-Lil+.
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> There's James Hayward's *Gypsy Jib*, which I know of but
> haven't used. And there's something else which I _have_
> used. And which I have managed to forget.
>
> So a fat lot of help I am.
>
> CW
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