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Originally posted by Slezer
Chav is from "Chavvie boy" which is some pikey talk *I think*. People will try tell you its an abbreviation for Council House and Vandals but don't listen to them because you heard it here first baby from the Big Slezer  .
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True, any time someone tells you a word gets its origin from an acronym (like Council House and Vandals, or For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, or any other examples), you can be 99.999% certain it's an urban myth. Almost no word ever emerges that way.
Just for the heck of it, I did a little looking up on "innit" and found a textbook talking about it being used in the '80s and even the '70s.
http://books.google.com/books?vid=IS...SI5Bm9MuQg0JPo
From a couple other things I just looked up, it seems to have originated in Wales back in the '60s, mostly with Asian immigrants.
For what it's worth.
