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Old 04-01-2017, 21:00
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I love when people from the East part of London speak in Rhyming slang. And i sometimes say few phrases like

This is all gone Pete Tong or You having a bubble

Do you sometimes say a few Rhyming slang phrases when you talk to people
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Old 04-01-2017, 21:04
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course I do, me ol' china, gawd blimey, I'm off up the apples and pears to have a bo peep and rest me bleedin plates
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Old 04-01-2017, 21:06
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course I do, me ol' china, gawd blimey, I'm off up the apples and pears to have a bo peep and rest me bleedin plates
where's Professor Higgins when you need him ?..............
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Old 04-01-2017, 21:12
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Old 04-01-2017, 21:15
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When I lived in South London we used to call a five pound note a Jackson.
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Old 04-01-2017, 21:19
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Old 04-01-2017, 21:33
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I love when people from the East part of London speak in Rhyming slang. And i sometimes say few phrases like

This is all gone Pete Tong or You having a bubble

Do you sometimes say a few Rhyming slang phrases when you talk to people
No I'm pretty sure that I don't, although having thought about it, I do still call a watch a kettle, (kettle and hob = fob), but I never say apples for stairs, skin and blister for sister, or Surrey Docks for socks.
Pete Tong and bubble bath for laugh are fairly recent innovations, and weren't used in the 30s, 40s, and 50s, when rhyming slang was everyday speech in London.
I recall around 25 years ago, a friend tried to introduce 'haddock' for a car, he said it was haddock and bloater for motor, fortunately that fell by the wayside.
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Old 04-01-2017, 21:33
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I do on occasion find myself saying "haven't a Scooby".
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Old 04-01-2017, 21:35
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When my husband gets home in his sherbet I'll ask him.
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Old 04-01-2017, 21:37
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Only when wearing my Pearl King ensemble whilst shopping at Waitrose on a Saturday morning. Otherwise, never.
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Old 04-01-2017, 21:40
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Only when I'm wearing my diddly-doo's and my Gregory Pecks.
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Old 04-01-2017, 21:41
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People use bottle, Charlie and berk a lot without apparently being aware of what they're saying.
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Old 04-01-2017, 21:42
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You're having a Giraffe, Mate.
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Old 04-01-2017, 21:48
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When I lived in South London we used to call a five pound note a Jackson.
Never heard Jackson, but a five pound note was often called a Jack's in the pubs I used in Rotherhithe, it came from, (and don't ask me how), Jack's alive, five.
Another term for a fiver was a glove, from five fingers I guess.

Going off thread a bit, in the mid eighties in rural towns in the South-East of the U.S., bars would often have "Drinking with Lincoln" nights, where for $5 you could drink cheaper beers and non branded liquor all night.
The 5 dollar bill bears the face of Abraham Lincoln.
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Old 04-01-2017, 21:48
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Old 04-01-2017, 21:49
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My husband's from Fulham, he calls Poles sausage rolls, that's Poles as in persons from Poland.
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Old 04-01-2017, 21:51
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When my husband gets home in his sherbet I'll ask him.

A lot of people who have no idea what a 'green badge, a bill, and identifiers' are will have no idea of what you mean Croctacus.
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Old 04-01-2017, 22:49
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My husband's from Fulham, he calls Poles sausage rolls, that's Poles as in persons from Poland.

bloody sausage rolls coming over here and nicking our jobs
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Old 04-01-2017, 22:51
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Never heard Jackson, but a five pound note was often called a Jack's in the pubs I used in Rotherhithe, it came from, (and don't ask me how), Jack's alive, five.
Another term for a fiver was a glove, from five fingers I guess.

Going off thread a bit, in the mid eighties in rural towns in the South-East of the U.S., bars would often have "Drinking with Lincoln" nights, where for $5 you could drink cheaper beers and non branded liquor all night.
The 5 dollar bill bears the face of Abraham Lincoln.
I told my mate once he owed me a pony, so he shat in a crisp bag and gave it me
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Old 04-01-2017, 22:55
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I guess the expression most used without knowing it is cockney slang is 'a load of' cobblers'
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Old 04-01-2017, 23:24
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People use bottle, Charlie and berk a lot without apparently being aware of what they're saying.
I've heard of the Berkeley Hunt, but didn't know that Charlie (cocaine?) was rhyming slang, and haven't a clue what you mean by 'bottle'.
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Old 04-01-2017, 23:25
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Had enough I'm away up the apple and pears to bed.
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Old 04-01-2017, 23:31
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I guess the expression most used without knowing it is cockney slang is 'a load of' cobblers'
Some people know it's rhyming sling... but not awl.
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Old 04-01-2017, 23:38
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No I'm pretty sure that I don't, although having thought about it, I do still call a watch a kettle, (kettle and hob = fob), but I never say apples for stairs, skin and blister for sister, or Surrey Docks for socks.
Pete Tong and bubble bath for laugh are fairly recent innovations, and weren't used in the 30s, 40s, and 50s, when rhyming slang was everyday speech in London.
I recall around 25 years ago, a friend tried to introduce 'haddock' for a car, he said it was haddock and bloater for motor, fortunately that fell by the wayside.
Agree with that, to me a bubble is a Greek or Greek Cypriot person (non derogatory), and I would say "you're 'avin a turkish".

I've never heard anyone say apples & pears, in fact the actual rhyming word is never normally pronounced.

Arthur Daley introduced a few good ones such as Hampsteads for teeth, and Miltons for baked beans (Miltons on toast). Danny Dire the fake cockney seems to make his own up generally but I think I've heard 'Let's have a Russell' elsewhere.
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Old 04-01-2017, 23:41
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No, because i'm not from London and i don't want to talk like an idiot.
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