May 27 2008
Chavori
A narrow boat called ‘Chavori’ on the River Kennet. A google search for the word Chavori produces very few search results (3 pages) and perplexingly questions whether I wanted to search for ‘behavior’, the results include texts on the ‘Romany’, ‘Gypsy’ languages. One article, ‘A memoire of the language of the gypsies as now used in the Turkish Empire’ describes Chavori as ”a young female child.‘ Evidently, many English Romany words have become common usage within the English language e.g. lolly, cosh, cushy and most recently chav.
Chavori
Ooooh, oooh, I’ve seen that boat too! We were canoeing down St Patrick’s stream (just off the Thames) over the bank holiday and they were moored up on one of the islands that you don’t want to camp on if there’s a risk of flooding. We sniggered a bit at the name - but admired the boat.