Multilingual Rhyming Slang

[James Smith]

--- "Prof. R. Sussex" <sussex at UQ.EDU.AU> wrote:
> Phillip Trauring asks about multilingual rhyming
> slang.
> ....
> This is a very British / Cockney thing in origin,
> but lively in some
> Commonwealth places (New Zealand, e.g.). Apparently
> some Australian
> hoods went to Chicago around 1925 and took some of
> their rhyming
> slang with them; rumour has it that some survives in
> the Windy City.
>
>
> Roly Sussex
> Professor of Applied Language Studies
> Department of French, German, Russian, Spanish and
> Applied Linguistics
> School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies
> The University of Queensland
> Brisbane
> Queensland 4072
> AUSTRALIA
>

I can't remember the name of the movie, but Cary Grant
played an Austalian tough-guy living in the States,
using this type of language.  The heroine's English
butler translated for her.



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