As alarmist headlines go, they were pretty puzzling. “Teenagers Aren’t Bobby Moore About Their Ruby Murrays and Their Rosie Lee,” fretted one British tabloid this week. “Is Cockney Rhyming Slang Brown ...
A guy walks into a doctor’s office and says, “Doc, wiv dis Billy Ray Cyrus, I can’t stop Wallace and Gromiting and I ‘ave a ‘orrible on and off. Do you ‘ave any Thomas Edison what won’t hurt me ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Do you know your apples and pears from your bees and honey? How much is a speckled hen? And who on earth IS Mickey Bliss? Unless ...
Over the next few months, a select group of East London ATMs will prompt customers with utter disregard for the King’s English. Instead, the machines will use a nearly indecipherable, rhyming cockney ...
A UK company has decided to roll out some fun cash machines in London for the next three months. Instead of seeing the options displayed on the cash machine in the Queen’s English, these ATMs will ...
Over the next three months, a cluster of East London ATMs will be offering customers the chance to withdraw cash using written prompts in Cockney rhyming slang, the area's colorful and often ...
Cockney culture has long been a proud part of London’s storied landscape, boasting its own pitter-patter dialect of rhyming slang, a cuisine of eels, pie and liquor, and even an alternative royal ...
You'd better get ready to use your loaf if you want to get your hands on some bread in London. Over the next three months, a cluster of East London ATMs will be offering customers the chance to ...
Verne has told Coolio about the Cockney rhyming slang that he picked up while filming in the UK. As well as "apples and pears" and "have a butcher", he also admitted to learning some more off-colour ...