Tuesday, August 23, 2005
Would you Adam and Eve it?: East London sounds different these days, apparently. Many Cockney speakers have moved out of the East End to the suburbs of Essex, and in their place is evolving a spoken language which fuses Estuary English and Bangladeshi influences. This new street slang may not yet be widespread, but "creps" now means "trainers" and "nang" means "good" (so we're told). Can the following Cockney rhyming slang be far behind?
apples and pears: mysterious non-Asian fruits
Brahms and Liszt: classic old-school mixmaster duo
dog and bone: contents of a typical takeaway meal
Jimmy Riddle: white lad pretending to be Bangladeshi
merchant banker: recently-moved-in Docklands resident
pen and ink: how people used to write before aerosol cans
north and south: opposing gangs from Bow and Poplar
skin and blister: what cheap gold jewellery gives you
trouble and strife: when police search your rucksack
whistle and flute: purveyors of well bangin tunes
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