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The Brain has selected interesting
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sentences from the web. It automatically assigned them to some of our
fictitious experts based on their personalities.
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Keith Tennant,
Factory Worker
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The name Bristol City still gives us undeveloped Brits a laugh with its cockney rhyming slang association with tits (titty) or Bristols.
The Little Book of Cockney Rhyming Slang is a small book full of examples of Cockney rhyming slang.
Londoners (known as Cockneys ) have their own distinct vocabulary full of rhyming slang and unusual words developed in the criminal underworld.
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Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent
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Remnants of Cockney rhyming slang , however, are found with a very few exceptions only in the English spoken in Britain, especially around London.
An attempt is made to explain Cockney Rhyming Slang as used in parts of London ( Have a butchers , do you like the whistle, me old china?
Sidelight: While most of the words derived from rhyming slang were likely to be understood only by those familiar with the idiom, some have continued in general English slang usage, as is the case with the above example.
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Shane Kelly,
Bar Tender
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The Cockney rhyming slang is a fun touch, but there were a lot of places in the movie where I didn't hear what was going on.
I have also collected a number of newer phrases that are labelled ' Modern Rhyming Slang ' which I have come across over the last few years.
Many of the more common Cockney rhyming slang phrases in use today can be found in the Cockney Dictionary.
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Jordan Jones,
Rapper
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What's with the rhyming slang soundbite thang?
Slang in which the word intended is replaced by with a phrase that rhymes with it, the rhyming word is then dropped and becomes understood.
Bob Hope - (rhyming slang) soap; dope.
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