Why is 'chav' still controversial?
A new book claims the word "chav" is helping to reignite class war. The journalist Polly Toynbee calls it "the vile word at the heart of fractured Britain". Recently a peer caused a kerfuffle when she tweeted about being stuck in "chav-land". So almost a decade after its emergence, is chav really the most divisive word in Britain?
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/magazine-13626046