Summary of Cockney article's

Londoners baffled by cockney rhyming slang

Link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/9172137/Londoners-baffled-by-Cockney-rhyming-slang.html


This Telegraph article is on the old and infamous Cockney rhyming slang, more specifically how modern Londoners are confused and baffled by it. The article outlines research to support this claim such as 80% of Londoners not understanding donkeys years, which as we all know is years. There is a brief history of where the slang originated which helps give insight into why it came about. The writer, James Orr, suggests reasons for the slang dying out; one being the increasing diversity of London paving a way for a new type of London slang or, thanks to the research of David Crystal, that once the slang started getting well known people just stopped using it.
 The inclusion of the history of this slang could give insight into why it is dying out. The petty criminals and street merchants adopted the lingo as to be secretive, they didn't want outsiders, more importantly the police, to know what they are saying. so, in this modern age, as more people understand cockney rhyming slang, the core speakers are leaving it behind; therefore spelling an end to the slang altogether.
       

Rhyming slang: UK's poetry of the proletariat goes pop

Link: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/04/0414_040414_britneyspears.html

Effect of media on the revival of cockney rhyming slang: There has been a considersble effect on cockney slang being well known with characters like Rodney and Dell Boy from Only fools and Horses speaking cockney therefore exposing people outside of East London to their lingo. The show being quite big means a large audience has been exposed to it, but it is an ag

Why does people become more 'mobile' have an effect on the exposure to the slang?  As people traveled more, the more the language was spread. This would mean that through conversations people would  pick up the odd term thus spreading the slang.

Teenagers getting a sense of belonging: I would tend to agree with this as the teenagers would feel a sense of being part of an exclusive group, who have their own language, an therefore feel part of something. 



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