Episode · Stuff You Should Know · 2023-09-23
Books mentioned on Selects: Cockney Rhyming Slang: Beautiful Gibberish
What is Cockney Rhyming Slang? It's complicated and its origins are unclear.
Josh Clark discussed A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words by John Camden Hotten and A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, And, Vulgar Words, Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London by John Camden Hotten.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words
Discussed“there's this guy named John Camden hotton and he wrote one of the better titled or at least most directly titled books I've ever heard of and there's no colon no there's not there are a couple commas though a dictionary of modern slang can't and vulgar words used at the present day in the Streets of London”
Where to get it
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A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, And, Vulgar Words, Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London
Discussed“there's this guy named John Camden hotton and he wrote one of the better titled or at least most directly titled books I've ever heard of and there's no colon no there's not there are a couple commas though a dictionary of modern slang can't and vulgar words used at the present day in the Streets of London”
Where to get it