Ultimate Cockney Geezer's Guide to Rhyming Slang

Informationen zum Autor Geoff Tibballs has written over 150 books, including the Ripley's Believe It or Not! annuals, The Mammoth Book of Weird News , Unbelievable Facts and The Guinness Book of Oddities . Among his claims to fame are having a rock band named after him by four people he has never met but who thought his name sounded memorable and once following former Liberal Party leader Jo Grimond up the escalator at London St. Pancras station. Klappentext Trade Paperback. An A-Z guide, containing entertaining asides and background info. The "Cockney Rhyming Slang" book was published in 1971, and has sold more than 300,000 copies. Zusammenfassung A guide to cockney rhyming slang. It explains the meaning of hundreds of terms, from old favourites such as apples and pears (stairs) and plates of meat (feet) to the more obscure band of hope (soap) and cuts and scratches (matches) through to modern classics such as Anthea Turner (earner) and Ashley Cole (own goal).

Product details

• Authors: Geoff Tibballs, Tibballs Geoff
• Publisher: Ebury Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.09.2008
• EAN: 9780091927486
• ISBN: 978-0-09-192748-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 110 mm x 155 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; London, Greater London, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, HUMOR / Form / Limericks & Verse, REFERENCE / Word Lists, Language: history & general works, Dialect, slang & jargon, Slang and dialect humour, Language: history and general works, Dialect, slang and jargon