Cockney rhyming slang etc

Heres anuver favourite used when someone has an accident/mishap 'gone for a burton' originaly started during WWII 'burtons' beer posters.

Re - 'Gordon Bennett' from LOVEMYRANGIE

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Originally Posted by lardy

The origin of the expression is not entirely certain. It is probably a minced version of the blasphemous oath "(Oh) God!" (pronounced by Londoners to sound more like "gawd") ...this is lifted from the wiki being of the southern persuasion i think it would be derived from Gawd as we have a knack of lack of pronounciation especially if "t" appears halfway through a word water = wa-ar butter= bu-ar

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General Gordon Bennett was the commander of the Australian 8th Division in Singapore in 1942. He became infamous for escaping and leaving his troops to be captured by the Japanese.
His troops and the public never forgave him for this and his name went down in history as an oath.


Deano

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Originally Posted by DeanoH

Re - 'Gordon Bennett' from LOVEMYRANGIE






General Gordon Bennett was the commander of the Australian 8th Division in Singapore in 1942. He became infamous for escaping and leaving his troops to be captured by the Japanese.
His troops and the public never forgave him for this and his name went down in history as an oath.


Deano

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There was a much earlier Gordon Bennett, a wealthy newspaper proprietor, and the sponsor of the Gordon Bennett Trophy races in the early days of motoring.

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Originally Posted by justinc

Talking of movies and the such like, Minder was another great source of these colloquialisms, and that most under rated musician Ian Dury (And the Blockheads) had some fantastic lyrics, some of his tracks such as 'Yellow Jersey' , 'I wanna be straight', 'Wake up and make love to me' and others really appealed to me.

JC

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Minder was where it started for me as well, even though my dear old dad had a few. One I seem to remember from Minder was 'aris' which was short for 'Aristotle' which rhymed with 'bottle' which was 'bottle and glass' which was your arse:D Reading a recent article about rhyming slang in past centuries where using bad language or the lord's name in vain could put you in jail substitutes were used. Don't call anyone a 'berk' because it was short for 'Berkeley Hunt':o