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" French, a speech compact thirty years since of English and a great number of odd words of their own devising, without all order or reason ; and yet, such is it as none but themselves are able to understand. "
Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy ... - Page 353
by Edward Burnett Tylor - 1871
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Readings in Medieval and Modern History

Hutton Webster - History, Modern - 1917 - 408 pages
...supposed, of one sex and another, to amount unto above 10,000 persons, as I have heard reported. Moreover, they have devised a language among themselves, which they name "Canting," but others, "peddler's French," a speech compact of English and a great number of odd words of their own devising,...
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A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

Captain Francis Grose - History - 1931 - 412 pages
...above ten thousand persons, as I have harde reported. More" over in counterfeiting the Egyptian roges, they have devised " a language among themselves, which they name Canting, " but others Pedlars French, a speache compact thirty years " since of English, and a great number of odde words of their...
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The Bookman: A Review of Books and Life ..., Volume 27

Literature - 1908 - 848 pages
...invention. "In counterfeiting the Egyptian rogues." says he of the vagabonds, who then infested England, "they have devised a language among themselves which they name Canting, but others Pedlar's French, a speech compact thirty years since of English, and a great number of odd words of...
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The Living Age, Volume 229

Literature - 1901 - 884 pages
...attributes it to a sole Inventor. The thieves and beggars, says he, "in counterfeiting the Egyptian rogues, have devised a language among themselves, which they name Canting, but others Pedlars' French, a speech compact thirty years since of English and a great number of oddwords of their own...
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Elizabethan Popular Culture

Leonard R. N. Ashley - England - 1988 - 330 pages
...unto above 10,000 persons, as I have heard reported. Moreover, in counterfeiting the Egyptian rogues, they have devised a language among themselves, which they name 'canting,' but others 'pedlar's French,' a speech compact thirty years since of English and a great number of odd words of...
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Becoming Criminal: Transversal Performance and Cultural Dissidence in Early ...

Bryan Reynolds - History - 2002 - 252 pages
...history of the language spoken by the criminals: "Moreover, in counterfeiting the Egyptian rogues, they have devised a language among themselves which they name 'canting' but other 'peddlers' French,' a speech compact thirty years since of English and a great number of odd...
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Life in Shakespeare's England: A Book of Elizabethan Prose

John Dover Wilson - England - 1913 - 334 pages
...above 233 10,000 persons, as I have heard reported. Moreover, in counterfeiting the Egyptian rogues, they have devised a language among themselves, which they name 'canting,' but others 'pedlar's French,' a speech compact thirty years since of English and a great number of odd words of...
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