The Pocket Cockney Rhyming Slang: The Original (Pocket Books) - Hardcover

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9781917082952: The Pocket Cockney Rhyming Slang: The Original (Pocket Books)
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ISBN 10: 1917082959 ISBN 13: 9781917082952
Verlag: Gemini Adult Books Limited, 2024

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Conventionally, a cockney is anyone born 'within the sound of Bow Bells' - St Mary-le-Bow church, in London - but rather than fixating on Dirty Den from Eastenders, Dickensian villains or Pearly Kings and Queens, perhaps we should focus rather on comedian Arthur Smith's definition, which may be nearer the mark: a cockney is simply a 'non-posh Londoner'.

This pocket glossary is intended for quick and easy reference; it's a portable cockney kit. Supposedly rhyming cockney slang was originally invented to outwit authority and eavesdroppers. Whether that's true or not, it remains a closed language to the uninitiated. But its humour is too good to be missed, which is, in large part, the rationale for this compact, entertaining volume.

Very rarely does a true cockney use his or her 'loaf of bread' (head); a cockney uses simply their 'loaf'. Where slang is abbreviated in this way, examples are given. Of course, rhyming cockney slang is constantly evolving and being added to, so this pocket guide cannot be the last word, but it offers a dependably solid foundation.

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Verlag
Gemini Adult Books Limited
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1917082959
ISBN 13 
9781917082952
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
128
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