As alarmist headlines go, they were pretty puzzling. “Teenagers Aren’t Bobby Moore About Their Ruby Murrays and Their Rosie Lee,” fretted one British tabloid this week. “Is Cockney Rhyming Slang Brown ...

A guy walks into a doctor’s office and says, “Doc, wiv dis Billy Ray Cyrus, I can’t stop Wallace and Gromiting and I ‘ave a ‘orrible on and off. Do you ‘ave any Thomas Edison what won’t hurt me ...

A UK company has decided to roll out some fun cash machines in London for the next three months. Instead of seeing the options displayed on the cash machine in the Queen’s English, these ATMs will ...

Americans and Britons share the same language, yet transatlantic visitors to the London Olympics might struggle to understand what's going on. The games are in East London, home of rhyming slang, a ...

If you happened to catch hugely popular British DJ, Pete Tong, at Public Works on Saturday night, you might have wondered why he'd called the night “All Gone Pete Tong”. While the term means nothing ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Would you Adam and Eve it? Cockney rhyming slang is brown bread. According to a survey, the famous lingo which developed in the working class east end of London in the 19th century ...

Over the next few months, a select group of East London ATMs will prompt customers with utter disregard for the King’s English. Instead, the machines will use a nearly indecipherable, rhyming cockney ...

I’ll start with a confession: I didn’t really understand the logic behind cockney rhyming slang until about three years ago. Yes, it took me 27 years to twig that the slang words were designed to ...

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For the next three months a cluster of East London ATMs will be offering customers the chance to withdraw cash using written prompts in Cockney rhyming slang. It works by replacing a word with a short ...