Rhyming slang for handcuffs?

Hawker Flora

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Apr 30, 1997, 3:00:00 AM4/30/97

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Can someone please post the rhyming slang for handcuff/s, and also the
name of a really good book about cockney and related slang songs?

ron hawker, in Kerikeri, New Zealand

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Markus Laker

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May 3, 1997, 3:00:00 AM5/3/97

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freshf...@igrin.co.nz (Hawker Flora):

> Can someone please post the rhyming slang for handcuff/s,

One of the nice things about rhyming slang is that anyone can make it
up. I don't know of any rhyming slang for 'handcuff', but you might
use, oh, I don't know, 'polish (and buff)' or 'dust (and fluff)' or
'fair (enough)'. Rhyming slangs were devised, in part, to exclude
outsiders, and so terms commonly used in one part of the world will not
be understood elsewhere.

> and also the
> name of a really good book about cockney and related slang songs?

Songs I can't help you with, but the FAQ (which is well worth reading,
and available from all the usual places) mentions three books on rhyming
slang in general:

>>
Julian Franklyn _A Dictionary of Rhyming Slang_ 3rd ed.,
Routledge, 1990, ISBN 0-415-04602-5

Paul Wheeler _Upper Class Rhyming Slang_ Sidgwick & Jackson,
1985, ISBN 0-283-99295-6

John Meredith _Dinkum Aussie Rhyming Slang_ Kangaroo, 1991,
ISBN 0-86417-333-4
<<

I've seen books on specifically Cockney rhyming slang but they've been
rather slender and designed for tourists rather than people genuinely
interested in language. I'm afraid I can't give you any references.

Markus Laker.

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Robert M. Wilson

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May 4, 1997, 3:00:00 AM5/4/97

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In article <97050403...@guildnet.org>,
lee.l...@guildnet.org (Lee Lester) wrote:
>
>Does anyone know if a book 'Talking Strine' (talking Australian)
>is still available; if so, from where? It was originally published, I
>believe, by Wolff (spg?) Publishing, London, in the late '50s or early
>'60s.

Are you thinking of the following? There have been several similar books
published.

Lauder, Afferbeck (Professor of Strine Studies at the University of Sinny)
"Let Stalk Strine" - Ure Smith, Sydney, 1965

The book was an outgrowth of a series of columns published in the "Sydney
Morning Herald".

Geoff Butler

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May 5, 1997, 3:00:00 AM5/5/97

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Lee Lester <lee.l...@guildnet.org> wrote:
>Does anyone know if a book 'Talking Strine' (talking Australian)
>is still available; if so, from where? It was originally published, I
>believe, by Wolff (spg?) Publishing, London, in the late '50s or early
>'60s.

Dunno, but the name of its title was called "Let Stalk Strine", by
Afferbeck Lauder.

-ler

Peter Moylan

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May 5, 1997, 3:00:00 AM5/5/97

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Lee Lester <lee.l...@guildnet.org> wrote:
>
>Does anyone know if a book 'Talking Strine' (talking Australian)
>is still available; if so, from where? It was originally published, I
>believe, by Wolff (spg?) Publishing, London, in the late '50s or early
>'60s.

I don't know whether it's still in print, but I believe the
title was "Let Stalk Strine".

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