This is a video my brother Isaac and I made where we're having a short conversation in Cockney Rhyming Slang.
Cockney Rhyming Slang is a language that isn't really even a language. It's a code where you take words that rhyme with the word you're talking about and say that instead. Though it's not that easy - you can't just choose any rhyme there is a proper way of saying lots of English words in Cockney Rhyming Slang.
Cockney Rhyming Slang was invented in the 19th century. Cockneys were people who were born within the sound of the bells of the church of St Mary-le-Bow. That means that you could hear the bells from that church where they were born.
People believe that it was made up by traders and thieves so they could disguise their language when they were plotting something. They could talk about it in front of Policemen and the policemen wouldn't even understand a word that they were saying.
I just think this is wonderful learning.Another London group that talked their own code were butchers - they talked backwards. "A pound of pork chops" would come out as "spoke krop fo dnuop a." . Just imagine if the London butchers were also Cockneys and spoke rhyming slang backwards - that would be impossible to understand!
ReplyDeleteTo Finnegan and Isaac - your Cockney Rhyming slang was pronounced really well and you spoke clearly. From Grace
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