Object of the Study

According to Jenny Ashford from the article at suite101.com The genuine article. Literally, cockney rhyming slang is a type of argot that is structured by replacing one word with two-word phrases that has the same rhymes. Usually the second word is dropped and the original word is replaced by a word that has no same rhyme, and then people usually use the word with has no same rhyme when they‟re in conversation. The argot is structured by replacing one word with a usually two- word phrase that rhymes with it. The second word of the phrase is then generally dropped, so that the original word has now been replaced by a word that does not rhyme, and that on immediate hearing has nothing to do with the original word. For example, the word “head” is sometimes rendered as “loaf” through the intervening rhyming phrase “loaf of bread.” By the same token, an American may be called a “Sherman” or a “septic,” through the phrases “Sherman tank” or “septic tank,” both of which rhyme with “Yank.” http:languagestudy.suite101.comarticle.cfmorigins_and_structu re_of_cockney_rhyming_slang Modern Cockney slang that is being developed today tends to rhyme words with the names of celebrities or famous people, for example: a. Britney Spears Beers b. Harry Nash Cash Based on the article “Languages of the World”, Asya Pereltsvaig said that there are some typical features of Cockney accent: a. T-glottalisation the use of the glottal stop instead of [t] and sometimes [p] and [k] as “Hyde Park” as Hy‟ Par‟ b. Th-fronting pronouncing θ as [f] and ð as [v], as in [f I n] “thin” c. H-dropping house = „ouse d. alterations for example, replacing eɪ with [æɪ ~aɪ ], as in [fæɪ s] „face‟ or [ta ɪ k] „take‟. There also common patterns that are usually used by people when they use cockney rhyming slang in the conversation.rhyming slang terms can be summarized as follows:

a. WORD and WORD

i. Noun and Noun :

Common nouns pleasure and pain means rain, e.g. You dont have to take an umbrella. There wont be any pleasure today. north and south means mouth, e.g. He gave me a punch right up the north and south. Proper nouns: Cain and Abel means table, e.g. Sit yourself at the cain. Jack and Jill “hill,” e.g. Their cat is up the jack. Adam and Eve “believe,” e.g. I cant Adam and Eve it. Verb and Verb: read and write means fight, e.g. Hed rather read than walk away. shake and shiver means river, e.g. He jumped right into the shake. ii. Pronoun and Pronoun : me and you means menu iii. Adjective and Adjective: sorry and sad means bad, e.g. That dinner was a bit sorry. iv. Numeral and Numeral: one and two means loo-toilet