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Baron Corvo

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Nov 8, 2001, 6:22:02 PM11/8/01
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I am triyng to find out about palare. Does anyone know of a website or book which lists the words & expressions and their meaning?

Thanks.

Steven Capsuto

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Nov 8, 2001, 6:39:01 PM11/8/01
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Baron Corvo wrote:

> I am triyng to find out about palare. Does anyone know of a website or book which lists the words & expressions and their meaning?

Have a vada at the Google search engine, using the keyword "polari" (the most common of the several spellings). There are a number of
web sites about it.

You also might search earlier messages from this group. I vaguely recall a whole Polari-related thread a year or so ago.

-- Steven Capsuto, Philadelphia, PA, USA
http://www.stevecap.com


Martha Brummett

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Nov 8, 2001, 10:51:01 PM11/8/01
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On Thu, 8 Nov 2001 23:22:02 GMT, cor...@nospam.netscapeonline (Baron
Corvo) wrote:

>I am triyng to find out about palare. Does anyone know of a website or book which lists the words & expressions and their meaning?

http://www.uwm.edu/~corre/index.html

http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/paulb/home.htm

http://www.chris-d.net/polari/

http://nz.com/NZ/Queer/Polari/

http://www.stg.brown.edu/webs/corre/franca/edition2/polari.html


Have a good time!

Martha Brummett
mo...@tde.com
Denver CO

Baron Corvo

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Nov 9, 2001, 1:36:01 PM11/9/01
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Ta! With knobs on...

Pariss

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Nov 11, 2001, 6:03:01 AM11/11/01
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"Baron Corvo" <cor...@nospam.netscapeonline> wrote in message
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> I am triyng to find out about palare. Does anyone know of a website or
book which lists the words & expressions and their meaning?
>
> Thanks.
>

err it's POLARE actually :)

try a search for 'round the horne' or 'Julian and Sandy'

Alan

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Nov 15, 2001, 2:14:01 AM11/15/01
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"Pariss" <pariss...@pariss.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> "Baron Corvo" <cor...@nospam.netscapeonline> wrote in message
> news:3bead1b...@news.freeserve.net...
> > I am triyng to find out about palare. Does anyone know of a website or
> book which lists the words & expressions and their meaning?
> >
> > Thanks.

Here's a few
http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/polari.htm
http://www.fabe.co.uk/page6.htm#polari
http://www.homeusers.prestel.co.uk/cello/Polari.htm
http://members.aol.com/frij/
http://www.chris-d.net/polari/
http://www.stevetaylor.org.uk/gay04.html

Alan.

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