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Cockney Rhyming Slang

on July 29th, 2010 by

Sir Winston Churchill once observed that Americans and the British are ‘a plain people divided by a common jargon’ …
On no account was that as happen as when describing the Cockneys.
You’ve certainly heard their stress, made famous in the whole kit from movies based on Dickens and George Bernard Shaw novels to computer-generated gekkos telling [...]

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