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I guess I need to clarify that I know British isn't it's own language. Firstly I just used the same title Siobhan did (She's from the UK btw) Secondly when someone says "you speak British" they DO NOT mean it's a whole new language.. IT'S THE ACCENT!! The language is English!!!!! There is absolutely no reason to get mad or frustrated about it. Your accent is British but you speak English, my accent is American and I speak English.. Yes there are more accents in each country, but for me to list them all off would be impossible. So it's a billion times easier for me and apparently a lot of other people (including brits) to just simply say British.
Agree with that, English has changed over the years as England has been invaded several times, by the Vikings, Romans, French, etc. More recently, influence has been taken from Colonial English (American English) through media such as T.V., Film, Music, Internet, and through technological advances/discovery such such as 'internet, computer, interface, email, doxxed. So, because of the areas of invasion and settlement, that is some of the reason why people sound different, in different areas of England.
The slang was to confuse the police, so the more complicated and long it is, it has a better chance of confusing someone. It's like how different generations use slang or opposite words to confuse and get away with things, but mainly for crime back in the day.
Cockney Rhyming Slang is thought to have developed from the criminal class in London's East End. They'd use the slang terms to confuse policemen who may be listening to conversations regarding illegal activities.
Cockney Rhyming Slang was actually done to be confusing - mainly slightly crooked Londoners trying to confuse the police. A Cockney is any Londoner born within the sound of the bells of St Mary-le-bow or Bow Bells!
her is some slang for british money, the common ones One pound - Nicker, quid, squid, smacker. Ten pounds - Tenner. Five pounds - Fiver, bluey (because they are blue in colour) 25 pounds - Pony. 50 pounds - Half a ton, bullseye. 100 pounds - a Ton. 500 pounds - Monkey. it also varies depend on your region, these are just some common ones to get you started
The accent you mentioned, which i know you have trouble with, is the cockney accent, and the cockney ryhming slang, and you have good right to struggle with that, It is said, back in the day, it was a slang, that was used by the criminal folk, so the police could not understand what they were saying, im not going to go into detail yet, but i would like you react and watch this sketch, it was from the show the 2 ronnies, he plays the part of a priest, and does the his church stuff in cockney rhyming slang, you wont get most of it, but you will hear bits you might get, apple and pairs=stairs trouble and strife=wife plates of me =feet but there is some you have just learned, which you may get, here is the link The Two Ronnies: Rhyming Slang Sermon
I have no doubt that many subscribers have told you what a fortnight means, see if you can work out what.... a week last Friday means. Love you and your channel, good luck.
Butchers meaning 'take a look' is Cockney rhyming slang, the trouble for non-brits is that the actual rhyme part is often missed (for brevity), in this case it's 'Butchers Hook'. One that hasn't been shortened is 'Apples and Pears' meaning Stairs. I come from the centre of England, so a favourite saying here is actually a greeting- 'Aye up me duck' meaning 'hey there my Duke (or Duchess)' and signifies that you think them as worthy as a Duke etc.
My Grandad used to say, "up the apples" at bedtime (when I lived there until I was 6 years old with my Mum, my Nan and my Grandad - after coming home from hospital where I was born 4 weeks prem, and then caught Polio aged 8 weeks in SCUBU "somehow" - though there was a Polio epidemic going on at the time in London - and I couldn't walk til I was 4 years old... (Sorry for the "lecture"!!) 🤔😏🏴🇬🇧🙂🖖
@@brigidsingleton1596 wow that sounds awful to have to go through at such a young age 🥺❤️🩹 you must be one tough person! I absolutely love that saying btw, it sounds cuter saying "up the apples"😂❤️
The whole point of the origins of rhyming slang was for it to be indecipherable to those not in the know if, for instance, they overheard a conversation about criminal intents in a pub.
@@Kayla.burlin Thank-you... I guess I must be something of "a tough old bird" (another British saying, "bird" used to be an acceptable term for a girl or young woman, often described as "my bird" by a boyfriend!!) Especially these days as in 2022 I was diagnosed as having "congestive heart failure" (an ongoing condition for which I'm prescribed meds to ease the symptoms) and, "A.F" (irregular heartbeat) and "CKD"* (failing kidneys) - chronic kidney disease* and every _surgical_ procedure I need to have done has to be performed under _local_ anaesthetics due to my apparently "multiple co-morbidities" (meaning they don't think I'd survive a general anaesthetic... 😟) But, I'm still "hanging in by a thread" - another British phrase!! - and my 71st birthday is early August 2924, so not far to go now, and hopefully the kidney dialysis will wait another 6 or so months...because I'm _definitely_ _not_ looking forward to having to travel to the dialysis clinic for 4 hours per session each time, 3 times every week for the rest of my life (because the Renal - kidney specialists - Consultants tell me I'm _not_ well / or strong enough 😐🙁 to receive a donor kidney transplant). Sigh!
In the times of the Pagan Anglo-Saxons you generally didn't count time in days, but rather nights, so "I will see you in two nights" (OE: Ic wille ðe geseon on twam nihtum.) instead of "I will see you in two days" (OE: Ic wille ðe geseon on twam dagum.) So, Fourteen Nights would be: Fēowertīene niht in Old English, which would then become Fourtene nyht and then Fourtenyht, both in Middle English, and now Fortnight in Modern English.
The whole point of Cockney rhyming slang, as with many slangs, is that it excludes people who aren’t part of your in group. It still happens today amongst, particularly youth groups. Cockney rhyming slang however has been around for donkeys and appears frequently on TV. So everyone knows it. Don’t feel bad about not understanding it. It doesn’t make sense… at all.
It isn't Monkey's here at the moment! Its bloody hot and humid! 🙄 We have lots of sayings and words describing the same thing. "British English" as Americans like to say...which in my mind is just English (and the original one) really is a very rich language.
That may well be a northern term but as a Londoner, I've heard and said the same for many, many years. I can only assume some words and phrases may remain close to their place of origin, but others will "travel" as people migrate from area to area, following work etc...?
The fact that you don't understand Cockney rhyming slang is what it's all about. It originated in the East End of London and developed as a way of obscuring the meaning of sentences to those who did not understand the slang , though it remains a matter of speculation whether this was a linguistic accident, or whether it was developed intentionally to assist criminals or to maintain a particular community.
There is no such thing as a BRITISH accent !! We have many ! ENGLISH, SCOTTISH, IRISH and WELSH. Each UK country will have regional accents and dialects which can change every 10 miles or so ! FORTNIGHT = A PERIOD OF 2 WEEKS/14 DAYS. Short for FOURTEEN NIGHTS. (FORT NIGHT) The full phrases is....."Bob's your uncle, and Fanny's your aunt".
The birds singing is annoying in the summer time here, because dawn in the height of summer is around 3.30 to 4am and the sun does not set till around 10pm ish
Cockney Rhyming Slang? Okay, not sure of the origin of it, except that it probably originates in London (Cockney = London working-class accent. "Love it" sounds like "Lav it.") It's usually working class peeps that speak in cockney rhyming slang, out of pride of their geographical heritage, or pride of their economic heritage. Usually it is used in non-formal settings/situations. 1. Cockney-Rhyming-Slang is a coded dialect, proficient users can have a whole conversation in it. In particular it relies on the phonology of the dialect, a coded phonetically similar word/example is substituted for the intended word. Being that it has the regional locator word of 'Cockney' in it's title, this points to the London area. It is usual for this coded-dialect to be used among working class folk, in a manual labour work setting, or in a social gathering. 2. The rhyming l slang can come in the form of 'something & something' e.g.' apples & pears' means stairs where the second word is the functional rhyming operator, though it can come in other forms. In the movie 'Snatch' it was said of some jewellery that, 'it's Mickey Mouse mate!' That means that the item was dodgy/fake/stolen, the coded rhyming operative word would have been 'Mickey' which rhymes with 'Tricky'. Where something/someone is referred to as 'Tricky' it means that they're not trustworthy, or that they are inflammatory/violent. 3. In some cases, because of the common usage of Cockney Rhyming Slang among it's users it is expected by the speaker, that the receiver has a learned level of familiarity. So the speaker may elect to use a higher level of coded speech. As in the example already used, 'apples & pears' a speaker may say, 'I had to run up the 'apples' because I left the bath running, I just managed to catch it before it overflowed.' So, in that example, the speaker, expected the receiver to know the functional rhyming operator word without them even having to say it. In Cockney Rhyming slang I'm sure that there are several other points, but I'm not native to London, so I could only help so far.
A fortnight is 2 sennights! A sennight is a "seven night" or a week! A fortnight is 2 sennights or 2 weeks! I love using those terms when I'm in the US! 🤣🤣🤣
Some expressions in Cockney rhyming slang are so very unique and obscure, even other British people (Cockneys themselves apart) don't always get them either - so don't feel too bad! Nonetheless, there are still quite a few phrases (like the ones described in the video) that are generally commonly understood.
A cockney is someone born within in the sound of beau bells. In other words a Londoner born in the area surrounding st mary le beau church in the east end of London. Cockney rhyming slang came about as a way communicating without the authorities understanding.
@@julianfarrall8963 It's Le Bow, not Le Beau. Re the slang it's more likely to be market traders, not wishing to be understood by customer. The idea that the police are not able to understand it is not really believable, is it?
All those non-scary stories you have from Disney. If you read the European originals you will find they are extremely violent. Bob's your uncle. This came from Robert, Lord Slaisbury. When he became prime minister he filled his cabinet with close relatives. So if Bob was your uncle, you were all set. Nepotism rules!
I'm British born and bred and I didn't know that's where Bob's your Uncle came from. Though once I read it I immediately thought the. Americans could use "Donny's your Dad's in the same way.
Freezing the balls off a brass monkey thing is popularly told - but there seems to be no actual evidence for the cannon balls and brass frame story - in US or RN histories anyway. It might be exactly what you think it means. Chinese souvenir "3 wise monkey" might be the origin, but all early references say "tail" or "nose", not balls. So, it is actually unknown. Phrases... hundreds come to mind. Cockney Rhyming slang is something I have come to love - fascinating history, and many are so funny. Used to drink in London bar called the "Brahms and Liszt", famous romantics composers right... or in cockney slang, "Pissed" as in drunk 😁
There were originally 4 wise monkeys the 4th "Do no evil" was lost during the victorian times because his hands were over his genitals, would fit with your theory.
A fortnight is 2 weeks. The most famous fairy tales are from the German authors "the brothers Grimm" who wrote a lot of stories like little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel, Cinderella.and Snow White. I'm going to try and find a list of Cockney rhymes for you.
You may be aware, but if not and for anyone else, technically the Brothers Grimm wrote them down, rather than authored them themselves, they travelled around many villages and towns and collected their Folk Tales and wrote them down, as they wished to preserve them because they believed that the morals and ideas of the stories richer and more rooted in the "Volkish" spirit of community and culture more than the modern tales which they felt were "artificial".
Thank-you for saying so. I am "late to the party" today but wanted to say exactly that...and will leave it to you to expand on it as or if required, if you will. ❤😏🏴♥️🇬🇧🙂♥️🖖
Oh ffs stop saying this. I dont know if you think you are being clever or what but accents from the uk are British accents. They have their individual names but they're still British accents. You can't expect random people to know the names of every accent. I'm from Britain and I couldn't name specific accents. I'm welsh and would just call accents from England, English, I know cockney from eastenders and scouse and Birmingham because they're well known, same with Geordie. I couldn't name a Lancashire accent though or a Yorkshire one. Or what ever else. I don't expect people to know there's a difference between llanrumney and tremorfa accents here in Cardiff even though they're 5 mins apart by car.
Cockney rhyming slang doesn't make sense - the whole point of it is to speak without being understood by outsiders. It was originally used by criminals so the cops didn't understand what they were saying.
One of my favourites is Scottish slang, Haud Yer Wheesht (which just means Be Quiet). Hope you're back to normal now, after the storm. Take care until next time😄
@@Kayla.burlin Haud rhymes with Cod, Yer rhymes with Her & Weesht is Wee followed by the Shh sound, but right at the end, make sure to pronounce a sharp T
Tame,very shallow video,she doesn't actually have much of a clue to be frank,the idiocricies of the English language changes from town to town,she could of done a lot better,still,she has her 5 minutes of fame I spose 😵💫👍
I guess I need to clarify that I know British isn't it's own language. Firstly I just used the same title Siobhan did (She's from the UK btw) Secondly when someone says "you speak British" they DO NOT mean it's a whole new language.. IT'S THE ACCENT!! The language is English!!!!! There is absolutely no reason to get mad or frustrated about it. Your accent is British but you speak English, my accent is American and I speak English.. Yes there are more accents in each country, but for me to list them all off would be impossible. So it's a billion times easier for me and apparently a lot of other people (including brits) to just simply say British.
Fortnight, abbreviation of fourteen nights
There's also the rather obscure sennight which means literally “seven nights,” i.e. a week.
You can drive for half an hour and there's a different accent here, we all grew up with it
Agree with that, English has changed over the years as England has been invaded several times, by the Vikings, Romans, French, etc. More recently, influence has been taken from Colonial English (American English) through media such as T.V., Film, Music, Internet, and through technological advances/discovery such such as 'internet, computer, interface, email, doxxed. So, because of the areas of invasion and settlement, that is some of the reason why people sound different, in different areas of England.
The slang was to confuse the police, so the more complicated and long it is, it has a better chance of confusing someone. It's like how different generations use slang or opposite words to confuse and get away with things, but mainly for crime back in the day.
There's a good saying my dad used to say. "You're as strong as a fortnight, and thats two week" 😂😂😂..
😂😂❤️
Her very last sentence, I understood perfectly! I’m not cockney but I am British.
Disney and similar film makers have taken out all dark aspects of original fairy stories like Grimm's fairy tales ❤.
You've got a nice boat and a mad Barnet....
🤔🤔😅
@@davidgray8863 oh ok! 😅
Fortnight = Two Weeks
Cockney Rhyming Slang is thought to have developed from the criminal class in London's East End. They'd use the slang terms to confuse policemen who may be listening to conversations regarding illegal activities.
If that's the case I'm 100% sure it worked for a little bit 😂
Cockney Rhyming Slang was actually done to be confusing - mainly slightly crooked Londoners trying to confuse the police. A Cockney is any Londoner born within the sound of the bells of St Mary-le-bow or Bow Bells!
I'm sure it worked for a while, then people caught on and used it for something different. I find that very fascinating!
The full expression is "Bob's your uncle. Fanny's your aunt."
Hey Kayla, a FORTNIGHT is just 2 weeks. So "A fortnight from now" would be like saying "2 weeks from now".
her is some slang for british money, the common ones
One pound - Nicker, quid, squid, smacker.
Ten pounds - Tenner.
Five pounds - Fiver, bluey (because they are blue in colour)
25 pounds - Pony.
50 pounds - Half a ton, bullseye.
100 pounds - a Ton.
500 pounds - Monkey.
it also varies depend on your region, these are just some common ones to get you started
The accent you mentioned, which i know you have trouble with, is the cockney accent, and the cockney ryhming slang, and you have good right to struggle with that, It is said, back in the day, it was a slang, that was used by the criminal folk, so the police could not understand what they were saying,
im not going to go into detail yet, but i would like you react and watch this sketch, it was from the show the 2 ronnies, he plays the part of a priest, and does the his church stuff in cockney rhyming slang, you wont get most of it, but you will hear bits you might get,
apple and pairs=stairs
trouble and strife=wife
plates of me =feet
but there is some you have just learned, which you may get, here is the link
The Two Ronnies: Rhyming Slang Sermon
I have no doubt that many subscribers have told you what a fortnight means, see if you can work out what.... a week last Friday means. Love you and your channel, good luck.
Butchers meaning 'take a look' is Cockney rhyming slang, the trouble for non-brits is that the actual rhyme part is often missed (for brevity), in this case it's 'Butchers Hook'.
One that hasn't been shortened is 'Apples and Pears' meaning Stairs.
I come from the centre of England, so a favourite saying here is actually a greeting- 'Aye up me duck' meaning 'hey there my Duke (or Duchess)' and signifies that you think them as worthy as a Duke etc.
My Grandad used to say, "up the apples" at bedtime (when I lived there until I was 6 years old with my Mum, my Nan and my Grandad - after coming home from hospital where I was born 4 weeks prem, and then caught Polio aged 8 weeks in SCUBU "somehow" - though there was a Polio epidemic going on at the time in London - and I couldn't walk til I was 4 years old...
(Sorry for the "lecture"!!) 🤔😏🏴🇬🇧🙂🖖
@@brigidsingleton1596 wow that sounds awful to have to go through at such a young age 🥺❤️🩹 you must be one tough person! I absolutely love that saying btw, it sounds cuter saying "up the apples"😂❤️
The whole point of the origins of rhyming slang was for it to be indecipherable to those not in the know if, for instance, they overheard a conversation about criminal intents in a pub.
@@Kayla.burlin
Thank-you... I guess I must be something of "a tough old bird" (another British saying, "bird" used to be an acceptable term for a girl or young woman, often described as "my bird" by a boyfriend!!) Especially these days as in 2022 I was diagnosed as having "congestive heart failure" (an ongoing condition for which I'm prescribed meds to ease the symptoms) and, "A.F" (irregular heartbeat) and "CKD"* (failing kidneys) - chronic kidney disease* and every _surgical_ procedure I need to have done has to be performed under _local_ anaesthetics due to my apparently "multiple co-morbidities"
(meaning they don't think I'd survive a general anaesthetic... 😟) But, I'm still "hanging in by a thread" - another British phrase!! - and my 71st birthday is early August 2924, so not far to go now, and hopefully the kidney dialysis will wait another 6 or so months...because I'm _definitely_ _not_ looking forward to having to travel to the dialysis clinic for 4 hours per session each time, 3 times every week for the rest of my life (because the Renal - kidney specialists - Consultants tell me I'm _not_ well / or strong enough 😐🙁
to receive a donor kidney transplant). Sigh!
In the times of the Pagan Anglo-Saxons you generally didn't count time in days, but rather nights, so "I will see you in two nights" (OE: Ic wille ðe geseon on twam nihtum.) instead of "I will see you in two days" (OE: Ic wille ðe geseon on twam dagum.) So, Fourteen Nights would be: Fēowertīene niht in Old English, which would then become Fourtene nyht and then Fourtenyht, both in Middle English, and now Fortnight in Modern English.
The whole point of Cockney rhyming slang, as with many slangs, is that it excludes people who aren’t part of your in group. It still happens today amongst, particularly youth groups. Cockney rhyming slang however has been around for donkeys and appears frequently on TV. So everyone knows it. Don’t feel bad about not understanding it. It doesn’t make sense… at all.
Dont be lazy, it only takes a minute, not a fortnight, to google a word, a subject, a poem, lyrics, the periodic table!
It isn't Monkey's here at the moment! Its bloody hot and humid! 🙄
We have lots of sayings and words describing the same thing. "British English" as Americans like to say...which in my mind is just English (and the original one) really is a very rich language.
‘It’s all Tinkerbell here in the US!’
tinkerbell is charcter created by Scottish Writer, J. M. Barrie
Lancashire accent will blow your mind....... eg : put wood in'th hole..... means close the door
That may well be a northern term but as a Londoner, I've heard and said the same for many, many years. I can only assume some words and phrases may remain close to their place of origin, but others will "travel" as people migrate from area to area, following work etc...?
@@brigidsingleton1596 good point. I agree with you on that.
Sorry I missed your live earlier.
A fortnight is two weeks.
The fact that you don't understand Cockney rhyming slang is what it's all about. It originated in the East End of London and developed as a way of obscuring the meaning of sentences to those who did not understand the slang , though it remains a matter of speculation whether this was a linguistic accident, or whether it was developed intentionally to assist criminals or to maintain a particular community.
There is no such thing as a BRITISH accent !! We have many !
ENGLISH, SCOTTISH, IRISH and WELSH.
Each UK country will have regional accents and dialects which can change every 10 miles or so !
FORTNIGHT = A PERIOD OF 2 WEEKS/14 DAYS. Short for FOURTEEN NIGHTS. (FORT NIGHT)
The full phrases is....."Bob's your uncle, and Fanny's your aunt".
The birds singing is annoying in the summer time here, because dawn in the height of summer is around 3.30 to 4am and the sun does not set till around 10pm ish
Heard someone say ‘double yolker,’ thought they’d made it up but is real.
Yes 2 yolks in the same egg shell. Great when you crack it in to the frying pan when you are making breakfast.
Cockney Rhyming Slang? Okay, not sure of the origin of it, except that it probably originates in London (Cockney = London working-class accent. "Love it" sounds like "Lav it.") It's usually working class peeps that speak in cockney rhyming slang, out of pride of their geographical heritage, or pride of their economic heritage. Usually it is used in non-formal settings/situations.
1. Cockney-Rhyming-Slang is a coded dialect, proficient users can have a whole conversation in it. In particular it relies on the phonology of the dialect, a coded phonetically similar word/example is substituted for the intended word. Being that it has the regional locator word of 'Cockney' in it's title, this points to the London area. It is usual for this coded-dialect to be used among working class folk, in a manual labour work setting, or in a social gathering.
2. The rhyming l slang can come in the form of 'something & something' e.g.' apples & pears' means stairs where the second word is the functional rhyming operator, though it can come in other forms. In the movie 'Snatch' it was said of some jewellery that, 'it's Mickey Mouse mate!' That means that the item was dodgy/fake/stolen, the coded rhyming operative word would have been 'Mickey' which rhymes with 'Tricky'. Where something/someone is referred to as 'Tricky' it means that they're not trustworthy, or that they are inflammatory/violent.
3. In some cases, because of the common usage of Cockney Rhyming Slang among it's users it is expected by the speaker, that the receiver has a learned level of familiarity. So the speaker may elect to use a higher level of coded speech. As in the example already used, 'apples & pears' a speaker may say, 'I had to run up the 'apples' because I left the bath running, I just managed to catch it before it overflowed.' So, in that example, the speaker, expected the receiver to know the functional rhyming operator word without them even having to say it.
In Cockney Rhyming slang I'm sure that there are several other points, but I'm not native to London, so I could only help so far.
A fortnight is 2 sennights! A sennight is a "seven night" or a week! A fortnight is 2 sennights or 2 weeks! I love using those terms when I'm in the US! 🤣🤣🤣
Some expressions in Cockney rhyming slang are so very unique and obscure, even other British people (Cockneys themselves apart) don't always get them either - so don't feel too bad! Nonetheless, there are still quite a few phrases (like the ones described in the video) that are generally commonly understood.
I'm glad I'm not the only one 😅
Nobody’s speaks British we speak English
A cockney is someone born within in the sound of beau bells. In other words a Londoner born in the area surrounding st mary le beau church in the east end of London. Cockney rhyming slang came about as a way communicating without the authorities understanding.
bow, not beau
@@AndyPashley The le in the name of the church gives a clue to the original name.
@@julianfarrall8963 It's Le Bow, not Le Beau.
Re the slang it's more likely to be market traders, not wishing to be understood by customer.
The idea that the police are not able to understand it is not really believable, is it?
St Mary le Bow is in cheapside, not bow east London, it's central London the old city. will these east enders ever get it right.
@@user-gv9kc7il3m cheapside is the East side of the city.
It's next to Bank.
Unlike st Paul's which is west side of the city
I’ve heard the dawn chorus in your videos before. It might not have been in the morning but it was definitely a chorus of birds.
Old English fēowertīene niht ‘fourteen nights’.
fortnight, two weeks
Fortnight =14 days =2 weeks
All those non-scary stories you have from Disney. If you read the European originals you will find they are extremely violent. Bob's your uncle. This came from Robert, Lord Slaisbury. When he became prime minister he filled his cabinet with close relatives. So if Bob was your uncle, you were all set. Nepotism rules!
I'm British born and bred and I didn't know that's where Bob's your Uncle came from. Though once I read it I immediately thought the. Americans could use "Donny's your Dad's in the same way.
Freezing the balls off a brass monkey thing is popularly told - but there seems to be no actual evidence for the cannon balls and brass frame story - in US or RN histories anyway. It might be exactly what you think it means. Chinese souvenir "3 wise monkey" might be the origin, but all early references say "tail" or "nose", not balls. So, it is actually unknown. Phrases... hundreds come to mind. Cockney Rhyming slang is something I have come to love - fascinating history, and many are so funny. Used to drink in London bar called the "Brahms and Liszt", famous romantics composers right... or in cockney slang, "Pissed" as in drunk 😁
There were originally 4 wise monkeys the 4th "Do no evil" was lost during the victorian times because his hands were over his genitals, would fit with your theory.
@@KernowWarrior Not my theory dude - repeating what much more clever people than I believe. Seems good to me.
you should look up the last night of the proms videos from 2012
Any road up.
A fortnight is 2 weeks, or Fourteen days/nights.
A fortnight is a period of fourteen nights, ie, two weeks
Fortnight means 2 weeks
Fortnight is two weeks. Bobs your uncle means everything I’d OK. Chin wag means a gossip with friends. Up the duff means you are pregnant.
THow to speck English fortnight is two weeksb Tinker bell is from The IK
A fortnight is 2 weeks.
The most famous fairy tales are from the German authors "the brothers Grimm" who wrote a lot of stories like little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel, Cinderella.and Snow White.
I'm going to try and find a list of Cockney rhymes for you.
You may be aware, but if not and for anyone else, technically the Brothers Grimm wrote them down, rather than authored them themselves, they travelled around many villages and towns and collected their Folk Tales and wrote them down, as they wished to preserve them because they believed that the morals and ideas of the stories richer and more rooted in the "Volkish" spirit of community and culture more than the modern tales which they felt were "artificial".
rhyming slang is meant to confuse, so the cops dont know what oyur tlaking aobut
There is no such accent as British
Thank-you for saying so. I am "late to the party" today but wanted to say exactly that...and will leave it to you to expand on it as or if required, if you will. ❤😏🏴♥️🇬🇧🙂♥️🖖
Oh ffs stop saying this. I dont know if you think you are being clever or what but accents from the uk are British accents. They have their individual names but they're still British accents. You can't expect random people to know the names of every accent. I'm from Britain and I couldn't name specific accents. I'm welsh and would just call accents from England, English, I know cockney from eastenders and scouse and Birmingham because they're well known, same with Geordie. I couldn't name a Lancashire accent though or a Yorkshire one. Or what ever else. I don't expect people to know there's a difference between llanrumney and tremorfa accents here in Cardiff even though they're 5 mins apart by car.
A Scottish accent is a British accent as is the Welsh and the Northern Irish.
the video isn't even about accents.
They are all European accents then 😂
Cockney rhyming slang doesn't make sense - the whole point of it is to speak without being understood by outsiders. It was originally used by criminals so the cops didn't understand what they were saying.
One of my favourites is Scottish slang, Haud Yer Wheesht (which just means Be Quiet). Hope you're back to normal now, after the storm. Take care until next time😄
You got me sitting here trying to pronounce that 😂
@@Kayla.burlin Haud rhymes with Cod, Yer rhymes with Her & Weesht is Wee followed by the Shh sound, but right at the end, make sure to pronounce a sharp T
how s that we girl in american
another britihsnism,,'' a bit of hows your father? now what does thta mean
I would have no idea 😂.
English. British isn't a language.
Tame,very shallow video,she doesn't actually have much of a clue to be frank,the idiocricies of the English language changes from town to town,she could of done a lot better,still,she has her 5 minutes of fame I spose 😵💫👍
There is no British language it is English Scottish Welsh or Irish four different countries with four different languages and accents 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
I know British isn't it's own language, no need to be mad. Siobhan Thompson was the one who came up with that title and she's British.
Fortnight means 2 weeks