Note 4 — Introduction.
Reading edition
The Gipsy vocabulary seems to have influenced the secret thieves’ slang, and, accordingly, vulgar language, in other countries besides England. Thus, there are in modern Stockholm-cant words such as: lattjo (pleasant), tjej (sweetheart; Gipsy: chel?), pirka (cap), etc., originating, it is said, from the Gipsy language.