COCKNEY RHYMING SLANG ~ is a Wizard prang
Speaking in ENGLISH ~ folk can't understand !
Thus APPLES (and Pears) means STAIRS
And BUBBLE (and Squeak) is a word for GREEK
And BUTCHERS (Hook) means TAKE A LOOK !
And BREAD (and Honey) the word for MONEY
So if I said to you today ............
I'll go up the APPLES to find
A holiday bottle of BUBBLE wine
I'll take a BUTCHERS ~ like I said
And you can buy it wiv some BREAD !
I'm going up the STAIRS
LOOKING for GREEK wine
An' if you've got some MONEY
You can buy this wine of mine !
Thanks for listening ~ comments welcome ~ Luv BRIAN XOX
Dedicated to Uncle Michael ~ who opened Pandora's Box
Cockney Rhyming Slang was developed in the 19th Century
to enable Market Traders to talk about their GOODS without
the PUNTERS knowin' what they were talkin' about.
I hear a lot of CRS because ESSEX is very near LONDON
and a lot of COCKNEYS live in Essex ! Many words derived
from CRS are in common use in the SOUTH of ENGLAND !
Use your LOAF (HEAD from Loaf of Bread)
He's doin' BIRD (TIME in Prison from Bird Lime)
He's on the DOG (PHONE from Dog & Bone)
We're goin' for a RUBY (CURRY from Ruby Murry)
There are hundreds of them and in some cases we use
both words ~ as in ROSIE LEE (cup of Tea) ~ to HALF INCH
somethin' is to PINCH (STEAL) it ~ and goin' for a JIMMY
RIDDLE is a PIDDLE (PEE) and there are much ruder ones !
Here endeth the Last Lesson ~ Luv as always ~ BRIAN XOX
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Very clever Brian, I enjoyed this
HI "B" Thanks for your comment ~ I've now added a video please check ! This is to enable visitors to LONDON to decipher CRS expressions if they hear them ! You can buy a CRS Phrase Book in London ! Yours BRIAN
Mio Caro Amico BRIAN,
Grazie per la lezione!
Thank you for the lesson!
I truly enjoyed it as I did Michael’s!
My husband and I were hysterical as I tried to read them with an Italian-American accent! Too funny!🤣🤣
Abbracci e Baci per te ed Angela...
~Laura~
CIAO LAURA ~ Nostra Bella Amica ! Grazie per tu comentario ! I have added a VIDEO please check ~ OK. There are many different English accents in the UK ~ Cockney ~ Cornish ~ Scouse (LIVERPOOL) ~ Geordie (NE England) and of course Welsh ~ Scots & Irish who also have their own LANGUAGES ~ Robbie Burns uses over 1000 dialect words (Auld Scots) in his poems ~ which necessitates a translation into Queen's English to comprehend ! Pleased you enjoyed ~ ANGELA is learning some MAORI WORDS ! Abbracci e Baci di tu AMICI ~ Brian ed Angela XOXOX
Ohh, not heard that lesson in church before! heehee.
Good Morning Steve ~ Well you can get copies of the GOSPELS translated into COCKNEY ~ SCOUSE ~ GORDIE ~ AULD SCOTS etc so you never know ! I have now added a video ~ Please check ! Thanks for reading & your comment ~ BRIAN
Brill stuff Brian - actually enjoyed the video even though it was by a non-cockney - an American at that - but why not?
THANKS MICHAEL ~ Thanks for your Poem yesterday which triggered the idea and my muse ! I looked at several videos but for our American Friends this was the clearest explanation ! On Sunday (in the after church Coffee !) someone was having a MOAN with a very miserable face ~ and one of our Cockney Members laughed and said \"Look at his BOAT ~ It\'s like sour creme\" He didn\'t have a BOAT and were 12 miles from the COAST ~ BUT my BRAIN said BOAT - RACE = FACE i.e. Look at his FACE ~ It\'s like sour creme ! Just like Geordie and Scouse it must be difficult for VISITORS who assume we all speak ENGLISH ! Yours BRIAN Please add a POEM to my new FUSION ~ on FAVE DAY of the WEEK~ Thanks B !
A very rich and clever language is Cockney-speak Brian and thanks for the amusing examples you gave in this tale of rhyming for the reason of hiding what traders were saying in the days back when. A good video too.
Thanks FAY ~ Michael opened up the CRS Pandora's Box yesterday so I thought I should respond. In ESSEX where I live ~ there are quite a few Cockneys so expressions like BUTCHERS (look) BOAT (face) DOG (phone) and BREAD (money) are quite common ~ It is very confusing for Foreign Visitors as are Scouse & Gordie ! Thanks for your comment ~ Yours as always BRIAN
This write is very interesting, I never knew about this. Thanks for sharing! I love it when you teach me something new! Sister Christina
Fun! There is a little town in Northern California called Boonville. When I was a child, the town's people had their own word system for similar reasons. The language was called, "Boontling".
I was brought up in the Medway Towns in Kent and now here in the Midlands people say I have a cockney accent.
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