1456: Cockney Rhyming Slang pt. 1 Dec 6, 2018

Cockney Rhyming Slang is a process by which words are replaced for a usually two-word phrase in which the final word rhymes; for instance, famously 'apples and pears' for 'stairs' but this happens with lots more, including names like how "on one's own" became  "on one's Tod Sloan" to finally just "on one's tod". As just shown, often, the part that held the rhyme is dropped, so that only the first part of the rhyming phrase remains, creating less of a code and more of a cryptolect: a system language used specifically for deception. This is mostly done for nouns, but this process happens for other lexical classes as well, such as 'Duke of York' for 'take a walk'. There will be more on this tomorrow.
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