Scally v Chav

[pauldominic]

The word 'chav', which derives from gypsy slang, has been appropriated by the middle classes to validate their snobbery. I realized how bad this had got about 8 years ago when my best mate's girlfriend at the time, a girl with Cheshire Set pretensions, described cheddar as 'chav cheese'.

The king of English cheeses and she's describing it as chav cheese, fucking hell.

Ooh. That might be a whole new can of worms.

 

[davymcfc]

I always say scally.

 

[derryCITY]

Yeah, they call them neds up here.
Back home in NI, we used to call them 'spides' and I've also heard them called skangers too.

Personally I call them fuck-wits.

 

[shackattack]

As a scouser hardly use the term scalls as I live down south now. Even in Liverpool it has decreased in use and most say " lids " instead. Chavvy is romany for youth I believe and some reckon it may have started in chatham in Kent hence Chav.

 

[jimmy blue shoes]

They're all lazy fuckin' scrotes to me!