Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: grass

From: Mark Sullivan ( DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net)
Date: 17 May 2002


A while ago, Colin wrote:

"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."

Colin, can you give any titles and/or authors? I've long wanted to know more and more about rhyming slang, in particular.

Mark

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