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Preamble In 1819, when the self-educated mill-worker William Collins began to dream of knowledge for all and chose to devote his life to creating a dictionary, he probably did not envisage a day when it would include words and phrases such as chavtastic, brand Nazi, soz, busty, beer o'clock, Smythchic and LOL.

Driven by websites like Chavscum and Chavtowns, and soon picked up by the mainstream media, the word has also mutated into "chavtastic", "chavsters", "chavette", "chavdom".

One of his forthcoming tracks, Let the Sun Shine, is anodyne lite-soul fare in which you'd be hard pressed to detect any UK influence at all when really the joy, if any, of N-Dubz and their ilk is that they provide a uniquely British – and yes, "chavtastic" – glimpse of Saturday afternoons spent loitering about in grimly glossy inner-city and suburban shopping precincts.