terça-feira, 21 de agosto de 2007

At's me book you got 'ere!

Professor Henry Higgins would never approve of this, but you ought to have an insight into one of the more famous and stigmatized dialects of British English. Cockney, the symbol of London's working class identity, has it's own rhyming slang, which is a set of expressions used to replace common words they rhyme with, to the point that non-Cockney English speakers have to rush to a very unusual dictionary or even an online translator.
If you want something more practical on Cockney, try to figure out what Bob is saying. If not, please refer to this website mantained by the Language Samples Project developed in University of Arizona.

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