As alarmist headlines go, they were pretty puzzling. "Teenagers Aren't Bobby Moore About Their Ruby Murrays and Their Rosie Lee," fretted one British tabloid this week. "Is Cockney Rhyming Slang Brown ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The unofficial 'Speak Cockney Day' is just around the corner, meaning you don't have much time to brush up on your London slang.

A guy walks into a doctor’s office and says, “Doc, wiv dis Billy Ray Cyrus, I can’t stop Wallace and Gromiting and I ‘ave a ‘orrible on and off. Do you ‘ave any Thomas Edison what won’t hurt me ...

Cockney sayings traditionally include rhyming slang — with the Queen called Baked Bean, for instance THE late Queen sounded increasingly Cockney through her 70-year reign, according to research.

A UK company has decided to roll out some fun cash machines in London for the next three months. Instead of seeing the options displayed on the cash machine in the Queen’s English, these ATMs will ...

Americans and Britons share the same language, yet transatlantic visitors to the London Olympics might struggle to understand what's going on. The games are in East London, home of rhyming slang, a ...

Would you Adam and Eve it some people don’t have a clue what a Ruby Murray is? Surely they’re having a bubble and getting themselves in the barney rubble or telling porkie pies if they don’t? If you ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Would you Adam and Eve it? Cockney rhyming slang is brown bread. According to a survey, the famous lingo which developed in the working class east end of London in the 19th century ...