At 04:00 18/5/02 -0400, you wrote:
>Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 16:42:45 -0400
(EDT)
>From:
DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net (Mark Sullivan)
>Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: grass
>
>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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