Steven Fennessy told the Herald
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It affords a remarkable instance of lingual contrivance, which, without the introduction of much arbitrary matter, has developed a system of communicating ideas, having all the advantages of a foreign language. The terms Cant and Canting were probably derived from chaunt and chaunting,the whining tone, or modulation of voice adopted by beggars, with intent to coax, wheedle, or cajole by pretensions of wretchedness.[4] For the origin of the other application of the word Cant, pulpit hypocrisy, we are indebted to the Spectator Cant is by some people derived from one Andrew Cant, who, they say, was a Presbyterian minister in some illiterate part of Scotland, who, by exercise and use, had obtained the faculty, alias gift, of talking in the pulpit in such a dialect that tis said he was understood by none but his own congregation,and not by all of them
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