Forget Pig Latin…try Cockney rhyming slang

Forget Pig Latin…try Cockney rhyming slang October 10, 2007

Call me chicken oriental, but this septic wants to speak in Cockney rhyming slang. It makes even French’s lively verlan seem staid and conventional.   

As Ramadan’s end approaches, I’m eagerly anticipating my visit to the riff raff to sit on me khyber for a while with good  non-academic captain and a huge, peasy  everton.

Utterly lost? To be fair, I don’t think rhyming slang generally appears in compound usages like this. Here’s a glossary.

Makes me mum and dad we don’t have it here.


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