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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc
Egad! Not the dreaded Cockney rhyming slang? That stuff is virtually untranslatable for us poor US of A folk speaking only American! 
No wonder you lost the colonies! No one could understand what the troops were saying! 
Seriously, whenever I encounter this in British mysteries, it's totally over my head. |
It's actually pretty anachronistic now - probably the only place you will see it is in books. Cockneys all talk Jafaican these days (fake Jamaican patois).
Henry Campbell-Bannerman?