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	Polari
		Polari (or alternatively Palare, from parlare, "to talk" in Italian language) is a form of cant slang, used in the gay subculture in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s.
		Polari is a mixture of Lingua Franca, Italian, Romany and Cockney back slang: common words pronounced as if spelled backwards.
		Polari was used in London fish markets and the gay subculture[?] in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s, becoming more widely known from its use by two camp characters, Julian and Sandy, in Round the Horne, a popular BBC radio show.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pa/Palare.html (173 words)

	Polari - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Polari (or alternatively Palare, from Italian parlare, "to talk") was a form of cant slang used in the gay subculture in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s, although its origins can be traced back to at least the nineteenth century.
		Polari is a mixture of Lingua franca, Italian, Romany, backslang, rhyming slang, and thieves' cant.
		Polari was used in London fishmarkets, the theatre and the gay subculture in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s, becoming more widely known from its use by two camp characters, Julian and Sandy, in Round the Horne, a popular BBC radio show which ran from 1964 to 1969.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Polari (1055 words)

	Polari: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Polari is a mixture of Lingua franca Lingua franca quick summary:
		Polari was used in London fishmarkets, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Polari had begun to fall into disuse by the late 1960s.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/po/polari.htm (1747 words)

	Matt & Andrej Koymasky - Polari/English - English/Polari - 1
		Polari (from Italian parlare = "to talk", "to speak") is a gay slang language, that was used in the gay subculture in Britain in the 1930s - 1970s, and which has now almost died out.
		Polari featured heavily in the " Julian and Sandy" sketches on the BBC radio program Round the Horne" in the late 60s, and this is how a lot of people first heard of Polari.
		Polari is mainly a lexicon, derived from a variety of sources.
	andrejkoymasky.com /lou/pol/pol000.html (482 words)

	The Observer \| Food monthly \| Mind your language
		Polari - or 'parlyaree' from the Italian 'to talk' - emerged from London's West and East Ends as a slang created by outsiders, such as theatre folk and circus people, cockneys, sailors and itinerants, who felt a special need to protect their identities or actions.
		Polari was adopted big time by the British gay community from the 1900s onwards and its use was rife in Soho's gay clubs, bars and 'backslums' (sex rooms) in the 1950s, before homosexuality was decriminalised.
		Says Sister Sadomystica, 29, 'There are few fluent speakers of Polari left now, but we have noticed that a number of younger men are picking it up from listening to Around the Horne tapes.' She sees the renewed interest as a resistance by gays to being mulched into maintream culture.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /life/story/0,6903,409178,00.html (892 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Guardian daily comment \| What brings you trolling back, then?
		Polari, the gay slang which faded away with the decriminalisation of male homosexuality and the advent of gay liberation, is making a comeback.
		Polari is, or was, a sort of gay Esperanto, a weird amalgam of Yiddish, Italian, Spanish, Occitan (a hybrid of Spanish and French), Cant (the secret language of thieves and outlaws), Romany, Cockney rhyming slang, backslang and, well, lingua franca (the old pidgin language of Mediterranean traders and seafarers).
		Polari flourished in the difficult years between the trial of Oscar Wilde and the 1967 Sexual Offences Act.
	www.guardian.co.uk /comment/story/0,3604,1391811,00.html (826 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Lavender linguistics
		Polari: "Ooh vada well the omee-palone ajax who just trolled in - she's got nanti taste, dear, cod lally-drags and the naff riah but what a bona eek.
		The origins of Polari probably lie in the 19th-century slang Parlyaree used by fairground and circus people, as well as prostitutes and beggars, and it also has links to the older vocabularies of other stigmatised groups or outsiders such as thieves' cant, cockney rhyming slang, yiddish and the lingua franca of sailors.
		Usage reached its peak in the repressive 1950s when being gay was illegal and dangerous: men lived in constant fear of flmail, exposure and the humiliation of electric shock and hormone "treatments", as well as imprisonment.
	www.guardian.co.uk /gayrights/story/0,12592,997623,00.html (1178 words)

	Gay slang makes a comeback! : HindustanTimes.com/UK: News for UK Asians (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Polari, the gay slang used as a secret underground language before the decriminalisation of homosexuality in Britain back in the 1960s, is making a comeback.
		You will need a special polari glossary to translate your way into this outrageously camp world where 'bona' means good, 'vada' is to see and your dolly old 'eek' is your lovely face.
		Polari first broke out of the closet in the late Sixties with Julian and Sandy, two camp characters in the BBC cult radio show "Round the Horne" who screeched their way through double entendre comedy routines laced with bitchy gossip.
	www.hindustantimes.com /news/5983_1212072,00110002.htm (558 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Club's 'bona' way to communicate
		What was once a way for gay men and women to communicate without revealing their sexuality to those not "in the know" is now helping workers from several different nations overcome language barriers.
		Polari became known to a wider audience when used in the BBC radio show Round the Horne in the 60s.
		Polari was used from the turn of the 20th century to the early 1970s by the gay community and theatre workers.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/4155343.stm (474 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Polari, the Lost Language of Gay Men (Routledge Studies in Linguistics): Books (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Polari is a secret form of language mainly used by homosexual men in London and other cities during the twentieth century.
		This book examines the ways in which Polari was used in order to construct 'gay identities', linking its evolution to the changing status of gay men and lesbians in the UK over the past fifty years.
		Social explanations for Polari's decline are given, as well as an analysis of the ways in which it has been adopted and modified in the 1990s by newer groups of users.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0415261805 (553 words)

	Gay slang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Modern gay slang has origins in the English language, unlike its linguistic sibling, Polari, which derives from Italian languages, Lingua Franca, Yiddish and French.
		Another difference between gay slang and Polari is that gay slang has become descriptive of the overall experience of life in the gay community, whereas Polari includes names for common words that have no exclusive relation to the LGBT culture (i.e.
		Baker, Paul (2002) Fantabulosa: A Dictionary of Polari and Gay Slang.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gay_slang#M (352 words)

	CD Baby: JUHA: Polari
		Outspoken politically and all-over-the-map musically, 'Polari' is one of the most interesting and satisfying albums we've heard in years.
		Polari is a exciting musical journey that says more on its 14 tracks than most hip hop artists do on their entire oeuvre.
		Blending funky dance hall beats with Motown-soulful vocals and right-on political lyrics, their debut album POLARI is a must-have for anyone who desires a modern soundtrack to the revolution.
	cdbaby.com /cd/juha (1126 words)

	How Bona to Vada Your Eek! - Loose Lips - May 2000
		Polari is now nearly extinct, but at the time was apparently widely enough known for the gay men in the audience to get a secret laugh at dialogue that very few straight people could understand.
		Less obviously, the use of a Polari phrase dropped into ordinary English could have served as clear signal to other men that you were a member of the team.
		It may be less necessary in these times to have such elaborate verbal marking of our sexuality, but Polari gives us a fascinating glimpse of the way gay men of another generation created a world of their own through language.
	www.guidemag.com /magcontent/invokemagcontent.cfm?ID=D98CDB44-1911-11D4-A7AB00A0C9D84F02&Method=GuideFullDisplay (760 words)

	The Errantic Timeline
		The Dominar is slain by Teris, a paladin of Aldor and of the Polari bloodline.
		5 PD The Polari King, Teris, is married to Sella Timun in the Grand Cathedral of Aldor in Iepo.
		Spring, 32 PD Leala Polari is escorted to the Great Oak by a contingent of Aldoran knights for the coming of age ritual of the Da’ni Ehlora.
	www.errantys.com /timeline.shtml (4653 words)

	Namu Pa'i 'Ai: Polari Revival in London Soho
		Polari, the famous gay men's slang of Britain, appears to be having another revival.
		As the Guardian (1/17/2005) correctly reports, Polari is actually a vestige of Lingua Franca (the earliest known European-based pidgin) which flourished between the 13th and 18th centuries.
		Polari would have been prevalent when Jojo's first started - there's been a club here since the 50s.
	namupaiai.blogspot.com /2005/01/polari-revival-in-london-soho.html (397 words)

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		Taken together, the campsite Polari and BGW and APP Villas Rubin offer a large number of services that can also be used, with a certain charge, by those who are not paying for their accommodation in these locations.
		Polari Bay and Cape Eva (Punta Eva - naturism) are 3km away from the towncenter, located within the campsite Polari, and they stretch as far as 2 km to the south of BGW and APP Villas Rubin.
		After Polari Bay there is Cape Eve (Punta Eva), a nudism beach which streches as far as to the end of the campsite.
	www.inforovinj.com /eng/plaze/polari.asp (395 words)

	Polari - British gay slang
		Polari (also seen as 'Palare') is a gay slang language, which has now almost died out.
		Polari featured heavily in the "Julian and Sandy" sketches on the BBC radio program "Round the Horne" in the late 60s, and this is how a lot of people first heard of Polari.
		Polari itself was never clearly defined: an ever-changing collection of slang from various sources including Italian, English (backwards slang, rhyming slang), circus slang, canal-speak, Yiddish and Gypsy languages.
	www.chris-d.net /polari (798 words)

	polhis
		By the mid-twentieth century, there had also been a cross-over to a recognisably gay form of slang, with polari used by the gay community to communicate in code in elaborate forms.
		Polari became an appropriate tool with which to confuse and confound the naff omees (straight men).
		Polari, by its furtive nature, attracted the bawdy and ribald - something as innocent sounding as varda the colour of his eyes actually meant "check out the size of his penis" and nanty curtain meant an omee (man) was circumcised.
	members.aol.com /frij/polhis.html (480 words)

	Script, Aug 2004 Show
		There were probably about 500 polari terms, and they included words for types of people, occupations, body parts, clothing, and sexual acts, and they were ideal for gossip.
		They used a lot of polari words and most of the sketches had the word "bona" in the title, "bona" meant "nice." It seemed in each sketch they had a different occupation.
		Well, that series was so popular that the general public learned many of the polari words, so some of the mystery of the language was erased.
	www.queermusicheritage.com /aug2004s.html (3723 words)

	BBC - Cambridgeshire - Voices - Cambridge's Gay Voices
		Polari is often referred to as an 'anti-language' or the lost language of gay men.
		Whilst hundreds of Polari terms exist, most users only have a knowledge of 20 or 30 terms: A gay man is known as an omi-palone; a woman is a palone and naff - a term we're all familiar with - is originally a Polari word that has crossed over into our everyday English language.
		By using Polari, gay men were better able to avoid being outed or prosecuted by the Law.
	www.bbc.co.uk /cambridgeshire/voices2005/gay_pub/cambridge_gay_pub.shtml (440 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| London \| 'Fabulosa' lingo revived at club
		Polari, last spoken in the 1970s, is derived from sources including rhyming slang and Cant; a language used by criminals in the 18th century.
		"By offering staff at Madame Jo Jo's the option of learning and using Polari to refer to familiar aspects and objects of their works we are offering a fun, yet practical way of bridging any language gaps," she said.
		Staff at the Brewer Street club were given a list of Polari words one week ago to learn and use at work but bosses stressed it was not compulsory.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/london/4071811.stm (319 words)

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