Cockney Rhyming Slang

[Anonymous]

Would it be shiny and bright to have a Cockney rhyming slang thread here?

I'm looking forward to calling someone a merry old soul one of these days.


Me old dutch, why don't we have a key with some London rhyming slang?

key = :?: I made that one up myself. Can anyone figure it out?


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[Tdol]

am I looking for a rhyme with 'thread'?

 

[Anonymous]

am I looking for a rhyme with 'thread'?

The rhyme is associated with key. I'm thinking about what we put a key into in order to open a door. That's where the rhyme is.

I could never figure any out. I'd have to take a course in rhyming slang.

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[Red5]

Key hole = Poll

 

[gwendolinest]

am I looking for a rhyme with 'thread'?

Butter and bread?

Fade-col

 

[Tdol]

:lol:

 

[Anonymous]

The rhyme is with "lock and key". Talk rhymes with lock.

have a key = have a talk

Come to think of it, I just remembered that when considering BE accents/pronunciation, some BE speakers might not consider that "lock" rhymes with "talk". Does "lock" rhyme with "talk" in BE? :shock: :?: In AE they rhyme.

If not, I'll call this American rhyming slang.

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[Red5]

The rhyme is with "lock and key". Talk rhymes with lock.

have a key = have a talk

Come to think of it, I just remembered that when considering BE accents/pronunciation, some BE speakers might not consider that "lock" rhymes with "talk". Does "lock" rhyme with "talk" in BE? :shock: :?: In AE they rhyme.

If not, I'll call this American rhyming slang.

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Lock rhymes with Stock

Walk rhymes with Stalk

Definitely an AE thread. ;-)

 

[Anonymous]

The rhyme is with "lock and key". Talk rhymes with lock.

have a key = have a talk

Come to think of it, I just remembered that when considering BE accents/pronunciation, some BE speakers might not consider that "lock" rhymes with "talk". Does "lock" rhyme with "talk" in BE? :shock: :?: In AE they rhyme.

If not, I'll call this American rhyming slang.

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Lock rhymes with Stock

Walk rhymes with Stalk

Definitely an AE thread. ;-)

I'll try to come up with something that rhymes in AE and BE next time.


Both lock and talk take a short o sound in AE. It's interesting and somewhat odd to me that in BE these two words aren't considered to be words that rhyme.

Could we apply the term off rhyme or slant rhyme here? Let's not forget the off rhymes and the slant rhymes.

I came across this in a trope glossary. However, here it is as defined by the AHD via Atomica. I had always thought of and considered this type of rhyme, but I never knew there could have been a name for it.

off rhyme
n.
A partial or imperfect rhyme, often using assonance or consonance only, as in dry and died or grown and moon. Also called half rhyme, near rhyme; Also called oblique rhyme, slant rhyme.

 

[Red5]

I guess that definition fits (from a UK point of view). They are very close when pronounced, but are certainly not a perfect rhyme.

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[RonBee]

The rhyme is with "lock and key". Talk rhymes with lock.

have a key = have a talk

Come to think of it, I just remembered that when considering BE accents/pronunciation, some BE speakers might not consider that "lock" rhymes with "talk". Does "lock" rhyme with "talk" in BE? :shock: :?: In AE they rhyme.

If not, I'll call this American rhyming slang.

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talk: hawk, walk, stalk
lock: dock, shock, mock, clock, cock, hock, knock, sock

I would say that "lock" doesn't rhyme with "talk" in AE.

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[Anonymous]

I would say that "lock" doesn't rhyme with "talk" in AE. <<<<


I would say that "lock" does rhyme with "talk" in American English.

As I talk now I can hear the rhyme. 'lock - talk'

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[RonBee]

I would say that "lock" does rhyme with "talk" in American English.

Not the way I say it it doesn't. I have never heard it spoken that way either. And we do speak American English in St. Louis.

~R

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[Red5]

I would say that "lock" doesn't rhyme with "talk" in AE. <<<<

Then you must speak another language. As I speak at this very moment the words "lock" and "talk" I hear a rhyme. And if I ask anyone else here, I'm sure they will say the two words rhyme. This has nothing to do with regional variations in accent or pronunciation.

I would say that "lock" does rhyme with "talk" in American English.

It sounds as though you think every American has the same pronunciation as you, which I find hard to believe. Surely whether the two words rhyme is a personal thing? :?

 

[Anonymous]

Okay. Overreaction.

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[Red5]

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[John D]

Go to any large store in Bristol UK and enquire where their toy department is. See just where you end up!!!....... That's right, in the tie dept.

 

[Samantha]

Go to any large store in Bristol UK and enquire where their toy department is. See just where you end up!!!....... That's right, in the tie dept.

My sister (we're from California) went to a grocery store in Arkansas and asked for Whoppers (they're a chocolate covered malt ball candy pronounced Wahppers) and the clerk took her to the windshield wippers (which I would pronounce why-pers).

 

[Samantha]

Can anyone explain how the Cockney Rhyming slang works? I understand the gist of it, but I never seem to be able to figure them out.

Maybe I'm just pathetic at rhyming

 

[Casiopea]

Can anyone explain how the Cockney Rhyming slang works? I understand the gist of it, but I never seem to be able to figure them out.

Maybe I'm just pathetic at rhyming

It's easy!

Delete the first sound of a word, say, "dole" (welfare):

dole => -ole

Now think of another word that ends in "-ole".

What about: Nat King Cole or Rock & Roll or Sausage roll. All of them refer to the dole in Cockney Rhyming Slang.

Some of my favorites are:

dollar for Oxford Scholar

and

trouble and strife for wife

or

hugs and kisses for the Mrs