Cockney Rhyme Glossary

Links to External Resources:

Web Resources:

www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk - a good database that gives the browser the chance the translate Cockney Rhyming slang into English.

www.urbandictionary.com - an informal database of slang that anyone can post onto

www.le.ac.uk - the University of Leicester's External Website

www.guardian.co.uk - this website is great for finding citations through searching the newspapers archive from the most recent date to as far back at 1857!

Bibliography: Useful books on rhyming slang and Cockney history

Crystal, David. Language Play (England: Penguin Books, 1998).

Dalzell, Tom and Victor, Terry. Ed.The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English Volume II:A-I Ed. Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor (UK:Routledge , 2006).

Dalzell, Tom and Victor, Terry. Ed.The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English Volume II:J-Z (UK:Routledge , 2006).

Franklyn, Julian. A Dictionary of Rhyming Slang (Great Britain: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, 1960).

Franklyn, Julian. The Cockney: A Survey of London Life and Language (Great Britain: Andre Deutsch Ltd, 1953).

Elmes, Simon. Talking for Britain: A Journey through the Voices of a Nation (England: Penguin Books, 2005).