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#140: Cockney Rhyming Slang
Description
It's a dialect from a small area of London's that might sound impossible to understand.
In this episode, you'll learn what "apple and pears" means, what you should do if a friend asks if you want to go to the "battle", and who your "trouble and strife" might be...
- Example clip of Cockney Rhyming Slang
- How Cockney Rhyming Slang is formed
- Funny connections between Cockney Rhyming Slang and the meaning of words
- Why does Cockney Rhyming Slang exist?
- Theories about how Cockney Rhyming Slang was created
- Is Cockney Rhyming Slang useful?
- Cockney Rhyming Slang in pop-culture
- Similarities with Verlan in French
- Why you should learn some Cockney Rhyming Slang (even if it isn't useful at all)
Full interactive transcript, subtitles and key vocabulary available on the website: https://www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/cockney-rhyming-slang
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