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Stuff You Should Know

Selects: Cockney Rhyming Slang: Beautiful Gibberish

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

What is Cockney Rhyming Slang? It's complicated and its origins are unclear. Learn everything we know about it today in this classic episode.

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0:36.9

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1:07.1

Hey everybody, it's your old pal Josh and for this week's Select, I've chosen our episode

1:12.3

from November of 2019 on Cockney Rhyming slang.

1:17.1

This is one of those silly episodes that's also packed with a lot of interesting information.

1:22.9

And I remember Chuck and I having fun making it, so I hope you'll enjoy listening to it

1:27.9

too.

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