As alarmist headlines go, they were pretty puzzling. “Teenagers Aren’t Bobby Moore About Their Ruby Murrays and Their Rosie Lee,” fretted one British tabloid this week. “Is Cockney Rhyming Slang Brown ...

The unofficial ‘Speak Cockney Day’ is just around the corner, meaning you don’t have much time to brush up on your London slang. Aligning with the Modern Cockney Festival, which takes place throughout ...

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Michael Landy’s east London installation plays on creativity of phrases such as ‘apples and pears’ and ‘chew the fat’ Would you Adam and Eve it? Cockney rhyming slang, the lyrical patter that once ...

The artist Michael Landy has unveiled a new piece in East Bank—a cultural and education quarter at the heart of Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford in east London—which brings a dying dialect ...

(CBS News) Rest in peace, Cockney rhyming slang. Apparently Britons no longer know the "dickie birds" (words). According to a new poll, the whimsical dialect associated with London's working class is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The unofficial ‘Speak Cockney Day’ is just around the corner, meaning you don’t have much time to brush up on your London slang.