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	AskOxford: Rhyming Slang
		Whiskery rhymes that in the normal course of linguistic evolution might have faded quietly away (apples and pears, skin and blister, whistle and flute) are preserved and polished as much-loved heirlooms, and their high profile keeps alive the impulse to create new rhymes (Britney Spears, Millennium Dome, Pete Tong).
		Superficially rhyming slang is in the tradition of the thieves' cant of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, but by the end of the 19th century it had become firmly associated with the language of London street-traders.
		In the 'rhyming slang' everything was named by something rhyming with it - a 'hit or miss' for a kiss, 'plates of meat' for feet, etc. It was so common that it was even reproduced in novels; now it is almost extinct.
	www.askoxford.com /worldofwords/wordfrom/slang/?view= (1009 words)

	Slang
		Slang is sometimes confused with jargon which is the collection of vocabulary specific to a profession: medical terminology for example.
		A famous example is Cockney rhyming slang in which, in the simplest case, word and phrases are replaced by a word or phrase that rhymes with it.
		Examples of rhyming slang are: 'apples and pears' for 'stairs' and 'trouble and strife' for 'wife.' An example of truncation and replacement of rhyming slang is bottle and glass for arse.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ga/Gangster_slang.html (430 words)

	ipedia.com: Slang Article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Slang terms are often particular to a certain subculture - such as drug users, skateboarders, or musicians.
		With the growth of text messaging, slang terms have even adopted commonly used spellings which do not conform to the rules of formal language; thus what a youth of the 1960s might have called groovy, a youth of 2002 might call "phat", both verbally and in text messages.
		Slang is often the dissemination of jargon from a specific profession or recreation to the general public.
	www.ipedia.com /slang.html (761 words)

	cockney rhyming slang
		Cockney rhyming slang at its most simplest uses a conjunction of words, whose last is used to suggest a rhyme, which is its definition.
		Rhyming slang, just part of the Cockney vernacular, is believed to have come to prominence in the early to mid 1800's.
		It should be emphasised that the most recently invented rhyming slang doesn't originate from Cockney's themselves, the name Cockney rhyming slang is now a loose term for the style of slang that uses the rhyming technique.
	www.peevish.co.uk /slang/articles/cockney-rhyming-slang.htm (960 words)

	Slang - Wikinfo
		Slang is often particular to a brief period of time, with common usage ranging from decades to only a few months.
		This fluid quality is unique to slang since it is not bound by the rigid meanings and usages of more formal language.
		With the growth of text messaging, slang terms have even adopted commonly used spellings which do not conform to the rules of formal language; thus what a youth of the 1960s might have called groovy, a youth of 2002 might call "phat", both verbally and in text messges.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Slang (2017 words)

	Cockney Rhyming Slang
		Rhyming slang has the effect of obscuring the meaning of what is said from outsiders.
		The way rhyming slang works does tend to exclude those not 'in the know', as the substitution of one word for another often relies on reference to a key phrase, which, for the slang to be understood, must be known jointly by those communicating.
		Rhyming slang is an exuberant linguistic form and tends to flourish in confident, outgoing communities.
	www.phrases.org.uk /meanings/cockney-rhyming-slang.html (1101 words)

	World Wide Words: Oxford Dictionary of Rhyming Slang
		When most people speak about rhyming slang, you can almost hear the unarticulated “Cockney”, so much is this odd linguistic phenomenon associated with the East End of London.
		Rhyming slang seems to have started in London around the 1850s.
		A slang dictionary of 1859 refers to “The cant, which has nothing to do with that spoken by the costermongers, is known in Seven Dials [a noted sink of iniquity] and elsewhere as the Rhyming Slang, or the substitution of words and sentences which rhyme with other words intended to be kept secret”.
	www.worldwidewords.org /reviews/re-rhy1.htm (359 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Oxford Dictionary of Rhyming Slang: Books: John Ayto (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The first reference to rhyming slang was in John Camden Hotten's The Slang Dictionary (1859) and it probably originated as an underworld code before developing into a form of word play that people found fun.
		Rhyming slang is a subject of perennial interest to the general language-conscious public.
		John Ayto explores the range and development of rhyming slang during its 150 year history, from traditional Cockney Rhyming Slang to the popney rhyming slang of today.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Oxford-Dictionary-Rhyming-Slang/dp/0192801228 (864 words)

	The Mavens' Word of the Day
		Rhyming slang, also called Cockney rhyming slang, is a form of slang where a rhyming phrase is substituted for an intended word, and often the rhyming element of the phrase drops out.
		Thus apples and pears is rhyming slang for stairs, and often the "and pears" is left out, giving apples as a slang term for stairs.
		Though rhyming slang is common in parts of England and Australia, it has never had much appeal in America.
	www.randomhouse.com /wotd/index.pperl?date=19980413 (366 words)

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		The most productive sources of new slang are young people, the drugs scene and fl culture, all of which overlap, of course, to a greater or lesser extent.
		This sample of slang dictionaries offers a glimpse of a small segment of that history, but it relates to a place and period of particular interest.
		The role of slang in reflecting and reinforcing institutional identity is evident in the Gradus ad Cantabrigiam, as it is in the Glynnese Glossary and the Mushri Dictionary.
	lycos.cs.cmu.edu /info/slang.html (581 words)

	What is Cockney rhyming slang?
		Rhyming Slang phrases are derived from taking an expression which rhymes with a word and then using that expression instead of the word.
		The rhyming word is not always omitted so Cockney expressions can vary in their construction, and it is simply a matter of convention which version is used.
		Cockney Rhyming Slang may have had its highs and lows but today it is in use as never before.
	www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk /cockney_rhyming_slang (540 words)

	How and when did the Cockney rhyming slang phrases originate?
		The final word of the substitute phrase rhymes with the word it replaces (for example - the cockney rhyming slang for the word 'look' is 'butcher's hook').
		Cockney rhyming slang then developed as a secret language of the London underworld from the 1850's, when villains used the coded speech to confuse police and eavesdroppers.
		Many original cockney rhyming slang words have now entered the language and many users are largely oblivious as to their beginnings.
	www.answerbag.com /q_view/23772 (474 words)

	Cockney Rhyming Slang - Glossary Definition - UsingEnglish.com
		Cockney Rhyming Slang is a specialised form of slang used in the East of London.
		It is a kind of antilanguage where words are replaced by phrases that rhyme (sound the same):
		Cockney Rhyming Slang is a dialect used in parts of London, where words are replaced by phrases that rhyme.
	www.usingenglish.com /glossary/cockney-rhyming-slang.html (249 words)

	"Weeping Willow" stands for "Pillow": Victorian Rhyming Slang
		But they also suggest the reason why rhyming slang may have been more closely associated with the Dials than elsewhere, since it was home to the publishers of the ballads they hawked throughout England.
		A Cockney (strictly speaking) is born in the sound of Bow Bells, the church of St Mary le Bow in Cheapside in the City of London.
		The other point to make is that rhyming slang is a living language and as such changes all the while.
	www.victorianweb.org /history/slang1.html (1526 words)

	cockney rhyming slang, autralian rhyming slang - cockney and austrlian rhyming slang terms, translations and definitions
		Cockney rhyming slang is an amusing, widely under-estimated part of the English language.
		Cockney rhyming slang is a significant and colourful presence in the English native language.
		This cockney rhyming slang listing is not a full dictionary, it shows the most common expressions and meanings, with cockney rhyming origins, and examples of more recent rhyming slang expressions.
	www.businessballs.com /cockney.htm (2243 words)

	Cockney Rhyming Slang - Icons of England
		Pop is slang for pawn and weasel comes from weasel and stoat, the rhyming slang for coat!
		From 'Apples and Pears' to 'Plates of Meat', cockney rhyming slang is a national institution.
		In spite of Williams Hughes Wiltshire's comment, Cockney Rhyming Slang is actually used by many people - although the majority are not aware that the slang expression they are using are CRS, so common have they become.
	www.icons.org.uk /nom/nominations/cockney-rhyming-slang?b_start:int=662 (230 words)

	London Slang - Introduction
		It is the nature of slang that it is either used to replace taboo phrases or to playfully enhance them, this is unavoidable when compiling a list of this sort.
		I have not included an exhaustive list of 'Rhyming Slang' terms but have focused on the specific phrases that are still widely used all around the capital.
		There are a number of pages on the 'net' that focus on 'Rhyming Slang' in more detail, but these largly focus on the historic terms that are only used by a very small group of people which I feel gives a rather cliched view of Londoners.
	www.londonslang.com (544 words)

	What is cockney rhyming slang?
		Rhyming slang uses a phrase that rhymes with a word, instead of the word itself — thus ‘stairs’ becomes ‘apples and pears’, ‘phone’ becomes ‘dog and bone' and ‘word’ becomes ‘dicky bird’.
		Additional confusion results when the rhyming part of the word is dropped: thus ‘daisies’ are ‘boots’ (from ‘daisy roots’).
		Numerous colloquial expressions derive from rhyming slang, such as 'let's get down to brass tacks' means 'let's talk facts'.
	www.britainusa.com /sections/articles_show_nt1.asp?d=4&i=41115&L1=0&L2=0&a=28539 (239 words)

	Eartha gives up throne to Pitt and Hurd in new dictionary of rhyming slang \| The Guardian \| Guardian Unlimited
		In another leap forward for modern Cockney rhyming slang, the Tory foreign secretary of the 1990s, Douglas Hurd, has deposed Richard III, George III and the phrase my word as a synonym for turd.
		Among them are Emma Freuds for haemorrhoids; Gary Glitter, via a rhyming word, for anus; Melvyn Bragg for shag; Britney Spears for beers; Alan Whickers for knickers; Camilla Parker Bowles for Rolls; Claire Rayners for trainers; Selina Scott for a spot; and Steffi Graf for a laugh.
		Cockney rhyming slang was first mentioned in an 1859 slang dictionary.
	www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,3604,805951,00.html (505 words)

	Cockney Rhyming Slang
		The Cockney gift to world culture is the phenomenon of Cockney Rhyming Slang - a code of speaking wherein a common word can be replaced by the whole or abbreviated form of a well-known phrase which rhymes with that word.
		Cockney Rhyming Slang has been evolving in the East End of London since the sixteenth century.
		It is thought to have originated from the seamen and soldiers who used the London docks, from the Gypsies who arrived in the fifteen hundreds, from the Irish residents and the Jewish faction and from all the other ethnic minorities which have made up the population of the city.
	www.phespirit.info /cockney (263 words)

	Welcome to the Cockney Rhyming Slang pages!
		Some stories go that this slang originated in the market place so that the vendors could communicate without the customers knowing what was being said - you wouldn't want your customers knowing that you were going to lower your prices in ten minutes so you could go home early.
		It is very difficult to describe what Rhyming Slang is without using an example, but I'll give it a try.
		The rhyme is "fish hook", so the slang expression is fish, as in "I'd like to say a word about the new fish by Len Deighton" except, of course, a real Cockney would more likely say "I've got a dickie about Deighton's new fish"; dickie is from dickie bird (i.e.
	www.aldertons.com (816 words)

	Cockney Rhyming Slang
		Remnants of Cockney rhyming slang, however, are found with a very few exceptions only in the English spoken in Britain, especially around London.
		Many of the more common Cockney rhyming slang phrases in use today can be found in our Cockney Dictionary.
		Much of the history attached to Cockney rhyming slang is uncertain.
	www.fun-with-words.com /cockney_rhyming_slang.html (177 words)

	whoohoo.co.uk Cockney Rhyming Slang Translator!
		The phenomenon of Cockney Rhyming Slang (or Rabbit) is a code of speaking in which a common word can be replaced by the whole or abbreviated form of a well-known phrase which rhymes with that word.
		It is thought to have originated from the seamen and soldiers who used the London docks, from the gypsies who arrived in the 1500’s, and from the Irish residents, the Jewish faction and all the other ethnic minorities which have made up the population of the East End.
		Cockney Rhyming Slang is an ever evolving language.
	www.whoohoo.co.uk /cockney-translator.asp (958 words)

	Cockney Rhyming Slang, London Slang, rhyming slang dictionary
		Cockney Rhyming Slang from London and the United Kingdom
		Modern: it might be brand new rhyming slang but if you've heard it used, rate it Modern.
		Much of the latest slang in the dictionary is contributed by our good friends, the readers.
	www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk (316 words)

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