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Have you ever visited the city of London before?

Is it true that the residents there speak in a strange form of rhyming dialect that not many people outside of the city understand and they have over 100 different ways just to say "It's raining"?
SW-User
Yes.
We all speak like Dick Van Dyke.
room101 · 51-55, M
@SW-User 🤣😂
SW-User
You're having a bubble!

That depiction is a load of old pony.
room101 · 51-55, M
@SW-User

https://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/english/L
SW-User
@room101 so historically rhyming slag used a word that is the first part of a two word rhyme.

Bubble needs bath to rhyme with laugh but you only say bubble.
Pony and trap means crap you just say pony
Apples and pears means stairs you say apples.
Whistle and flute means suit.

I see a guy in a new suit I say "Nice whistle"
Or I might say "That whistle is pony mate"
room101 · 51-55, M
@SW-User Yes, I know that most of the traditional Cockney rhyming slang is in two words.

https://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/slang/select.aspx?order=english-slang&page=1&mode=letter&letter=G&EnglishSlangRepeater=3_20
room101 · 51-55, M
So, I’ve gon dahn the apples and pairs, stepped out onto the frog n’ toad and, would you Adam and Eve it, what do my mince pies spy before me, me old mate Nick the Greek. We call him that on account of him being a bubble and squeak.

“Oi Nick, are you out or are you out, out?”
“I’m out, out”, says Nick.
“Well let’s be ‘avin ya! The old trouble and strife is watching the telly so I’m off dahn the frog and toad to the rub-a-dub for a cheeky pint.”
MissTaken · 36-40, F
That’s where my working life was until covid struck
Degbeme · 70-79, M
No! @Harriet03 said I wasn`t allowed because they`d reached their quota of Canucks. 😐
Harriet03 · 41-45, F
@Degbeme You know damn well what I'm talking about!!!! 😖
Degbeme · 70-79, M
Harriet03 · 41-45, F
@Degbeme Well you know what they say?
sassypants · 36-40, F
Not yet. It is on my bucket list. .
Harriet03 · 41-45, F
You aving a giraffe ?
Nomoretomorrow · 46-50, M
Visited lots especially now I live in Kent. Cockney rhyming slang traditionally comes from the East End of London but most people understand it though it changes.
alan20 · M
"Grew up" there - for all of three years. Never actually heard Cockney rhyming slang. Too much rushing about but many nice places.
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