Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 182, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1919 — Gipsy Vocabulary. [ARTICLE]

Gipsy Vocabulary.

Some curious and interesting information regarding gipsies is to be found in an old book dated ISI6. It mentions a report freely circulated at that time, that a member of the English parliament had stated to the house of commons that there were no less than. 36,000 gipsies in Great Britain. It gives a vocabulary of many of their words. They call the sun “chum,” the moon “chun,” bread and butter “kalmaro,” drink “levin dag jukou.” beer “limbar." old day “shil dewes,” silver “dupe.” hot day “tat dewfes,” and night “rauL” At that time, it is stated, not one gypsy in a thousand could read.