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It was described as having a chapter on Cockney rhyming slang, and the author suggested that traveling salesmen, known as chaunters and patters, were the originators of this unique slang.
A dictionary of modern slang, cant and vulgar words used at the present day in the streets of London.
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It was described as having a chapter on Cockney rhyming slang, and the author suggested that traveling salesmen, known as chaunters and patters, were the originators of this unique slang.
A dictionary of modern slang, cant and vulgar words used at the present day in the streets of London.
Episode: Cockney Rhyming Slang: Beautiful Gibberish
It was mentioned that this book includes a chapter on rhyming slang, and its author suggested that patterers and chanteurs, traveling salesmen, were the originators of Cockney Rhyming Slang.
There's this guy named John Camden Houghton 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 of commas though. A dictionary of modern slang can't invulgar words used at the present day in the streets of London.
And he does he has a chapter on rhyming slang and he basically says that it was two groups, Shaunters and patters basically traveling salesmen who would stand on street corners and hawk their wares and you know maybe pick your pocket while you were trying to buy something from them and that they came up with cockney rhyming slang.
Episode: Cockney Rhyming Slang: Beautiful Gibberish
It was mentioned as a book where the author theorized that street vendors, specifically 'patters' and 'chaunters', were the originators of Cockney rhyming slang, not criminals or Cockneys themselves.
There's this guy named John Camden Houghton 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 of commas though.
A dictionary of modern slang can't invulgar words used at the present day in the streets of London.
Episode: Cockney Rhyming Slang: Beautiful Gibberish
It was described as having a chapter about rhyming slang that suggested the origin was from traveling salesmen in the streets of London, not Cockney people.
There's this guy named John Camden Houghton 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 of commas though. A dictionary of modern slang can't invulgar words used at the present day in the streets of London.