Thieves' Cant

Dating to the early 16th century, thieves’ cant was a secret language used in the criminal underworld of Great Britain by thieves, beggars, vagrants, and supposedly Gypsies. Beginning in the mid-1500s, numerous “canting dictionaries” were published, and the code words of the thieves’ language came to be widely known. Though the argot is almost totally obsolete today, what small group of people was reported in 2009 to have revived thieves’ cant for everyday use? Discuss

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