The worker's flag is deepest puce

With fleurs-de-lys in pale chartreuse

Both working ome and nouveau riche

Will find our party very sheesh

We'll do our best for young and old

The party line is very bold

We'll troll together hand in hand

And make Great Britain fairy land!

- Julian and Sandy start a #MayDay revolution in 1968

#RoundTheHorne #BarryTook #MartyFeldman

Congrats to the majority of you who answered <Being complimentary> where 'dolly' = nice/attractive and 'ecaf' is backslang for face.

The following short video from the #BBC gives a general explanation of #Polari

https://youtu.be/Ol8MIXWouiY

And the video below is a short excerpt from the 1960's #BBC #comedy #radio show #RoundTheHorne featuring the use of Polari.

https://youtu.be/kbqCTiMrbdQ

As with a lot of English comedy, it's all about delivery amply demonstrated here by Kenneth Williams.

#Language #Quiz

#Polari first came about in the theatre and the #gay #subculture in #Britain in the 1950s and 1960s.

Born largely out of a need for discretion in a potentially hostile environment, it provided a convenient shorthand for #LGBTQ communication and was popularised by #KennethWilliams in the #BBC #radio #comedy show #RoundTheHorne during the 1960's.

Hence, if an #LGBTQ speaker of Polari said to you that you had a 'dolly ecaf', they would be: