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<title>Canting Dictionary</title>
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<h2>Canting Dictionary</h2>
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<p>A Collection of the Canting Words and
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Terms, both ancient and modern,
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used by Beggars,
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Gypsies, Cheats, House-Breakers, Shop-Lifters,
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Foot-Pads, Highway-Men, &c.</p>
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<p>Taken from <i>The Universal Etymological English Dictionary</i>,
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by N. Bailey, London, 1737, Vol. II, and
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transcrib'd into XML Most Diligently by Liam Quin.</p>
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<p>English spelling has evolved greatly since this
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dictionary was publish'd. In the Eighteenth Century, Capital Letters
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were generally used for Nouns, and the spelling of a word could vary
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from one occurrence to the next. <i>Cloaths</i>, <i>Clothes</i> and
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<i>Cloathes</i> all seem to have been used, for example.
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You'll just have to deal with it.</p>
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<p>Note also that <i>i</i> and <i>j</i> are treated as if they were the same
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letter, as are <i>u</i> and <i>v</i>, so that <i>Urchin</i> appears in
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the dictionary quite a way after <i>Vamp</i>, since the U is sorted as if it
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were a V.</p>
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