Hmmm... Cockney rhyming slang. I'll have a go:
China [Plate] = Mate
Dog [and Bone] = Phone
Battle [Cruiser] = Boozer (pub)
Jam Jar = Car
Frog [and Toad] = Road
Jack [Tar] = Bar
Pigs [Ears] = Beers
Elephants [Trunk] = Drunk
Ball [of Chalk] = Walk
--Michael
'55 BN1
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-healeys@Autox.Team.Net [mailto:owner-healeys@Autox.Team.Net] On
Behalf Of Hartangus@aol.com
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 12:38 PM
To: healeys@autox.team.net
Subject: re y'all
Hi John,
regarding your queary about London speech being understood
throughout England
see what you make of this,
me old china got on
the
dog to see if I fancied going down the battle.I went in the jam jar
[healey]
down the frog and we met in the jack and
had a few pigs.I got a bit elephants so had to take a ball home
Cheers Barrie
from
England
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