Etymology

Dartspeak

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Today it means: D4 English; a dialect associated with wealthy areas of Dublin in the 1990s and 2000s. Full definition →

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The story

From DART (“Dublin Area Rapid Transit”) + speak. Dartspeak was supposedly particularly preferred by wealthy suburban Dubliners who might commute into the centre on DART.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.