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 ...

Proper Cockneys come from the East End, which encompasses most of Tower Hamlets. Originally though, it referred to people ...

An ATM operator has introduced Cockney rhyming slang to a number of its cash machines in east London today. Those using the Bank Machine ATMs will be able to opt to have their prompts and options ...

A UK company has decided to roll out some fun cash machines in London for the next three months. Instead of seeing the options displayed on the cash machine in the Queen’s English, these ATMs will ...

The Museum of London announced last week that Cockney rhyming slang is dying out, no longer understood by a majority of Londoners, let alone people elsewhere. The museum's research suggests that youth ...

A guy walks into a doctor’s office and says, “Doc, wiv dis Billy Ray Cyrus, I can’t stop Wallace and Gromiting and I ‘ave a ‘orrible on and off. Do you ‘ave any Thomas Edison what won’t hurt me ...

There are a number of iconic Australians whose impact on our nation has been so profound that their names have managed to sneak their way into the Aussie vernacular. Replicating the success of cockney ...

Linguists are to focus on rhyming slang in new research for the Australian National Dictionary. They want to add to an existing and impressive lexicon of Aussie slang. Barry Crocker is an Australian ...

Customers will be asked to enter their Huckleberry Finn in order to withdraw sausage and mash after an ATM operator introduced Cockney rhyming slang to a number of its cash machines. 24 August 2009 • ...

For the next three months a cluster of East London ATMs will be offering customers the chance to withdraw cash using written prompts in Cockney rhyming slang. It works by replacing a word with a short ...