I’m gonna pretend like I didn’t even read that… :crazy:
And no…I don’t want to know what it means. :laugh:
Although i found it got a little samey in it’s delivery after a while it is a fascinating book for anyone remotely interested in the language. Can fully support the recommendation.
Not meanin to be a kiljoy here, we’re not all cockney geezas (thank christ)
Some of us actually stayed in school…blue touch paper UTTERLY ABLAZE!
You’ll get yourself in a bit of bother if you come over here and assume the whole of the UK are a bunch of light-fingered, unwashed, good-for-nothing, East end lost-cause West Ham fans or, as they’re known round our way, dirty little toerag scrotes…
Some of us speak proper like, 
Ah yes indeedy. Then there’s “English as She is Spoke”…
oooh thats fighting talk…:D:P
we dont really use it much at all, i might say something like, “aint gonna get no currant today” ie “it will not be a sunny day today”
Shattered me that has <A onclick=“opener.insert_smilie(this, 28); self.focus(); return false;” href=“http://www.bikersoracle.com/cbr600/forum/misc.php?do=getsmilies&wysiwyg=1&forumid=5#”>
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What has West Ham got to do with true Cockneys?
Then there’s this:
Cricket: As explained to a foreigner… You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that’s in the side that’s in goes out, and when he’s out he comes in and the next man goes in until he’s out. When they are all out, the side that’s out comes in and the side that’s been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out. When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game. And that’s plain English!
Going on another thread… aren’t most of Londoners now foreigners?
Confusing - try reading Trainspotting and understanding it likesay ken? (i think… I can understand feegle better)