Article: Would you Adam and Eve it?; East End Cockneys are renowned for their rhyming slang, and now that Madonna has taken up residence in Britain, she is making every effort to fit in with the locals - by using it herself. SHEREEN LOW reports on the ever-increasing trend...(Features)

Transcript: Cockney Rhyming Slang Used At London ATMs
NPR Morning Edition;  August 25, 2009 ;     218 words ... ... Edition 08-25-2009 Cockney Rhyming Slang Used At London ATMs Host: RENEE MONTAGNE ... choices at a few ATMs in London. Money dispensers are offering the East London dialect of Eliza Doolittle in rhyming slang for the next three months ...

Article: Frankie's skin and blister gets a tit for tat: use your ...
Highlights for Children;  November 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... part. They live in the East End of London, England, born within the sound ... way of talking is called Cockney rhyming slang. So far as we can tell, Cockneys ... still flourishes, especially in London's lively East End markets. And ...

Article: ATMs speak Cockney.(East End, London)(transactions in ...
British Heritage;  January 1, 2010 ;     563 words ... ... AND mash with receipt, please. A number of Bank Machine ATMs in East London have been programmed to make transactions in the neighborhood dialect, Cockney rhyming slang. After the machine reads their bladder of lard, customers will enter ...

Article: I've got a bad case of Johnny Giles in me poor Dundrum! ...
The Mirror (London, England);  January 10, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... found a huge growth in rhyming slang. And Ireland has coined ... originated in Cockney London a century ago. Young ... study of Ireland's rhyming slang culture by Antonio Lillo ... Alicante. He said: "Rhyming slang was almost dead for ...

Article: The Oxford Dictionary of Rhyming Slang
Western Folklore;  July 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... index. 7.99 paper) Rhyming slang is a problem for Londoners ... that the whole point of rhyming slang is that you rarely say ... from the wrong part of London. If we frequented East ... another level, however, rhyming slang has quietly slipped ...

Article: Is traditional rhyming slang brown bread?
The Sunday Telegraph London;  December 22, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... in Islington, north London, a watch was being referred ... of our words aren't rhyming slang at all, but simply reversed ... meat market, in central London, meat traders Bert Wright ... costermongers who spoke the real rhyming slang. This new stuff is down ...

Encyclopedia entry: RHYMING SLANG
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language;      525 words ...RHYMING SLANG. A form of SLANG ... probably among the London Cockneys, as part ... PRIVATE LANGUAGE . Rhyming slang was part of the general ... cobblers (What crap). Rhyming slang may never have been limited to London and is found in other ...