Cockney Slang

JONATHON KENEDY
English 2.8
“You can say that again”


Research Report: Cockney Rhyming Slang

Introduction
The language area that I have researched is that of Cockney Rhyming Slang. In the following paragraphs I will be discussing the origins of this type of slang, uses, effectiveness and also the influence of Rhyming Slang on everyday English language all through a series of questions.

Q.1 What is Cockney Rhyming Slang?
Cockney Rhyming Slang is an amusing, creative and widely underestimated part of the English language. The way it works is that you take a pair of associated words where the second word rhymes with the word you intend to say. For example one of the most famous ones, apples and pears, meaning Stairs follows these rules. Usually however, through the development of the English language, the rhyming slang is abbreviated to just the first word, so in the example above it would become just apples.

This jumbling of words makes a sentence much harder to und...