Multilingual Rhyming Slang

[Peter Sokolowski]

Hi folks:

>- rhyming slang seems to have been, and remains an English language
>phenomenon.

I don't see how we can make such a generalization without near-native
argotic knowledge of the languages we're excluding here.  Wordplay and
fun with rhyming are a part of language, not a part of English.

Just seems a bit myopic.

I think the French may still sing "la p'tite fille" to the Beatles' "Let
It Be."

Cheers,

Peter

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