Sun, 29 May 2016
The London Accent and Cockney Rhyming Slang - AIRC105 If you are a new listener to this award-winning podcast, welcome!
Más podcasts para mejorar tu ingles en: http://www.inglespodcast.com/ More podcasts to improve your English at: http://www.inglespodcast.com/
Listen to the Eastenders TV series for examples of the London cockney accent: https://www.youtube.com/user/EastEnders Cockney Rhyming slang - A type of slang in which a words are replaced by a words or phrases they rhyme with. Apple and pears = stairs To hide meaning from the law and/or to exclude outsiders List of slang: ( https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Cockney_rhyming_slang ) to have a butcher's (hook) = a look She's brown bread = She's dead (Aunt) Joanna - piano Boat race - face North and South = mouth Ruby Murray (popular singer in the 1950s born in Belfast) = curry Rub-a-dub-dub = pub (public house) pig's ear = beer George Raft = draught Gregory Peck = neck plates of meat = feet Pen and Ink = stink Porky = pork pie = lie, e.g. "He's telling porkies! jam jar = car jugs (of beer) = ears Adam and Eve = believe = as in "would you Adam and Eve it?" dog and bone = phone whistle (and flute) = suit trouble (and strife) = wife Tom and Dick = sick china (plate) = mate Tea leaf = thief Rosie = Rosie Lee = tea e.g. "Have a cup of Rosie" Brahms and Liszt = “pissed” = drunk
Italki ad read: Effective, Quality (fastest way to become fluent, great teachers, 1on1) Italki gives 100 italki credits (ITC) to each paying student that registers.
There’s a bit of rhyming slang outside London in the UK, but it’s almost not known at all outside its own environment. For example: BELFAST- tatie bread = dead (tatie bread is potato bread) mince pies = eyes a wee duke = a quick look
MANCHESTER-
Send us an email with a comment or question to craig@inglespodcast.com or belfastreza@gmail.com.
Lara Arlem Más podcasts para mejorar tu ingles en: http://www.inglespodcast.com/ More podcasts to improve your English at: http://www.inglespodcast.com/
The music in this podcast is by Pitx. The track is called 'See You Later' |