Back slang








Back slang is an English coded language in which the written word is spoken phonemically backwards.




Contents






  • 1 Usage


  • 2 Other languages


  • 3 See also


  • 4 References


  • 5 External links





Usage


Back slang is thought to have originated in Victorian England, being used mainly by market sellers, such as butchers and greengrocers, to have private conversations behind their customers' backs and pass off lower quality goods to less observant customers.[1] The first published reference to it was in 1851, in Henry Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor.[2]


Some back slang has entered standard English. For example, the term yob was originally back slang for "boy".


Back slang is not only restricted to words spoken phonemically backwards. English frequently makes use of diphthongs, which is an issue for back slang since diphthongs cannot be reversed. The resulting fix slightly alters the traditional back slang. An example is trousers and its diphthong ou, which is replaced with wo in the back slang version reswort.[3]


Back slang is said to be used in prisons by inmates to make it harder for prison wardens to listen into prisoners' conversations and find out what they were talking about. This use of back slang was highlighted in the 9 June 2010 episode of Crimewatch Roadshow.


Back slang has been reported to have been adopted for the sake of privacy on foreign tennis courts by the young English players Laura Robson and Heather Watson.[4]



Other languages


Other languages have similar coded forms but reversing the order of syllables rather than phonemes. These include:




  • French verlan, in which e.g. français [fʁɑ̃sɛ] becomes céfran [sefʁɑ̃]


  • French louchébem, which relies on syllables inversion too, but also adds extra syllables


  • Lunfardo, a Spanish argot spoken in Argentina, includes words in vesre (from revés, literally "backwards")


  • Greek podana[5] (e.g. the word βυζί becomes ζυβί[6])

  • 19th century Swedish (e.g. the word fika)


  • Šatrovački, a Serbo-Croatian-Bosnian slang system


  • IsiXhosa & isiZulu Ilwimi/Ulwimi used mostly by teenagers even called "high school language"



See also



  • Costermonger

  • Pig Latin



References





  1. ^ Sullivan, Dick. "Earth Yenneps: Victorian Back Slang". The Victorian Web. Retrieved 18 January 2016..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ Sullivan, Dick. "Earth Yenneps: Victorian Back Slang". The Victorian Web. Retrieved 18 January 2016.


  3. ^ "Earth Yenneps: Victorian Back Slang". www.victorianweb.org. Retrieved 2017-04-19.


  4. ^ Simon Cambers, "Laura Robson reveals the benefits of talking in tongues on tour", The Guardian, 25 January 2010


  5. ^ https://slangopedia.wordpress.com/2016/01/29/babbage-bye-felicia/


  6. ^ https://slangopedia.wordpress.com/2016/01/29/ζα-ζωντόβολο/




External links



  • Victorian Web Article

  • John Burkardt's list of back slang words at Florida State University










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