Comments on Crossword Unclued: Rhyming Slang

Will you Adam and Eve it, a Cockney ATM! (Thanks ...

2009-08-27T11:32:07.403+05:30

Will you Adam and Eve it, a Cockney ATM!

(Thanks Susan for writing about this. Link via The Virtual Linguist.)

Found this link. It has about 400 rhyming slangs: ...

2009-07-06T14:51:02.976+05:30

Found this link. It has about 400 rhyming slangs:

http://www.english-for-students.com/Cockney-Rhyming-Slang.html

Thanks for all the video links and movie reference...

2009-06-08T12:54:51.438+05:30

Thanks for all the video links and movie references. Very entertaining. I guess I need to watch more TV/films to deal with my rhyming slang ignorance!

Maddy, after reading your comment I need a tea break myself :)

Susan, I am a regular reader of The Virtual Linguist. Thanks for visiting and linking to my blog.

Figure this out... :-) Wotcher Shuchi, Robin one ...

2009-06-05T16:10:49.690+05:30

Figure this out... :-)
Wotcher Shuchi, Robin one china. A bunch of april and an aristotle of pig's to you for taking the barney to ronnie such a chicken post. I had no scooby that cockney slangs were used in crossdickys also. No wonder that many british X dicky pot of glues drive me gerties as i cant make loaf or alderman's nail of them.
My familiarity with cockney rhymes is due to stevies like Austin Powers, Must warn you though - Rated PG :-) Totally radio, Butchers it at your own risk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgPH0tYXJrA&feature=related), and the diametrically opposite evergreen movie "To Sir with Love" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVeZBulV0Fw).Also fishes like Trainspotting which drove me mum and dad with its british slangs, cockney and otherwise. i adam and eve the stevie version has been modified to make eighteen to others.
That was fun....But now that i ve squandered away my entire extended tea break writing this, must get back to more mundane things in life like work :-(

Here are a couple more that have crossed my desk, ...

2009-06-04T14:53:12.759+05:30

Here are a couple more that have crossed my desk, Shuchi:
Pork pie: Fabrication of hat
Half inch: Appropriate short measure

What a great blog this is!

Whoa!!! My introduction to Cockney rhyming slang w...

2009-06-04T00:09:23.868+05:30

Whoa!!! My introduction to Cockney rhyming slang was when I encountered this line in the movie Lock,Stock and Two Smoking Barrels - "Alright Alright, keep your Alans on". My trivia-hungry friend told me how Alans = Knickers and comes from Alan Whicker. Never knew it was used in crosswords.

That's just wicked! Thanks for that one Shuchi :)

Some cases where the second word is _not_ omitted:...

2009-06-03T13:30:30.636+05:30

Some cases where the second word is _not_ omitted: "apples and pears", "tea leaf", "pork pie" (except for "porkies" = lies). If there's a logical rule for deciding when the second word is dropped, I've never discovered it! You now have to watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ak5vYS0tvg