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Cockney Rhyming Slang
Topic Started: Feb 8 2011, 12:04 PM (87 Views)
Scott
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Do you like Cockney Rhyming slang? I think it's fun. They use it on EastEnders sometimes. If you don't know how it works, here's an example:

apples and pears = stairs

But they usually just use the first word (non rhyming part), so this is how you would say stairs:

"I went down the apples to the basement" Get it?

Here's a video that kind of explains it...notice at the end, she just uses the first words:



Can't really understand them, but this is funny:



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I am so not good at this! I guess if you live there its second nature-but I suck at this, lol.
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Mary Ann
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Scott
Feb 8 2011, 12:04 PM
Do you like Cockney Rhyming slang?


Yes, I do!

Loved the second video--Stephen Fry, of course! I really need captions because I missed at least half of the script. The accent is a little difficult, but the quick pace of speaking is sometimes hard--I have to replay it.
Edited by Mary Ann, Feb 9 2011, 11:28 AM.
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Mary Ann
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Here's an interesting online article -- COCKNEY: What Is Cockney? Cockney Rhyming Slang

Here's an excerpt:
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The OED's first recorded use of Cockney language is dated 1776. But it has been suggested that a Cockney style of speech is much older, with Matthews offering examples from the sixteenth century onwards (William Matthews, Cockney Past and Present, 1938). Shakespeare is among those he quotes, although his Cockneyisms are far from East Enders. Indeed, early Cockney is primarily a matter of pronunciation, as reverse-engineered from the recorded spelling of words such as frust (thrust), farding (farthing), anoder (another), and so on.

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