scatman says: Cheers! I should really get some sort of OED,
but they're so expensive and I can't be bobbing down the
library every five minutes. It's a shame that Peelers didn't
stick around longer, perhaps we might have ended up talking
about Potatoes and Super Potatoes. I'm sure I'm being an old
stick-in-the-mud but modern slang (and I don't spend much
time in prison yards either) doesn't seem as inventive as
classic cockney rhymning slang, of which there are several
fascinating dictionaries and histories.
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i stumbled a lot on rankin's vocabulary, and not just the
dialogue. many of the words in his narrative were foreign to
me too. i figured most of them out from context.
miker
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