The London Accent and Cockney Rhyming Slang - AIRC105 If you are a new listener to this award-winning podcast, welcome! With over 40 years of teaching between us, we'll help you improve your English and take it to the next level. (Grow your grammar, vocalize your vocabulary and perfect your pronunciation) In this episode: The London Accent and Cockney Rhyming Slang (we're going to help you.....) Más podcasts para mejorar tu ingles en: http://www.inglespodcast.com/ More podcasts to improve your English at: http://www.inglespodcast.com/ Listener Feedback: Audio feedback Juan, Colombia: Job in call centre, cockney accent a "bottle of beer". "Got to get a lot of it." 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 ) ( http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/ ) ( http://www.phespirit.info/cockney/slang_to_english.htm ) 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 Would you Adam and Eve it, I was down the rub-a-dub-dub with the trouble having a couple of pigs when a tea leaf nicked my wallet! Italki ad read: Effective, Quality (fastest way to become fluent, great teachers, 1on1) Native, International (native speakers) Convenient (learning at home, technology) Affordable (cut out the middlemen, great pricing) Personal, Customized (personalized learning) Human Connection (not apps / software) Italki gives 100 italki credits (ITC) to each paying student that registers. inglespodcast.com/italki/ - click on 'start speaking – find a teacher' We want to say thank you to italki for sponsoring Aprender Inglés con Reza y Craig 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- corn beef = "deef" = deaf ('mutton' or 'Mutt and Jeff' = 'deaf' in cockney rhyming slang) tatie bread = dead (tatie bread is potato bread) mince pies = eyes a wee duke = a quick look NEWCASTLE- a deek = a quick peek MANCHESTER- Newtons = teeth (from "Newton Heath", rhymes with "teeth"). In London they use 'Hampstead Heath' as rhyming slang for teeth. ...and now it's your turn to practise your English. Do you have a question for us or an idea for a future episode? Send us a voice message and tell us what you think. www.speakpipe.com/inglespodcast Send us an email with a comment or question to [email protected] or [email protected]. If you would like more detailed shownotes, go to https://www.patreon.com/inglespodcast $9.60 per month - We need $100 Our 9 lovely sponsors are: Lara Arlem Zara Heath Picazo Mamen Juan Leyva Galera sara Jarabo Corey Fineran from Ivy Envy Podcast Rafael Daniel Contreras Aladro Manuel Tarazona Más podcasts para mejorar tu ingles en: http://www.inglespodcast.com/ More podcasts to improve your English at: http://www.inglespodcast.com/ On next week's episode: Engineering The music in this podcast is by Pitx. The track is called 'See You Later'

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