Rhyming slang ATM Photo by Cory Doctorow CC BY-SA 2.0
I’ve been taking a short and very bland story and rewriting it in different styles. This time I’ve chosen cockney (defined as someone born within the sound of Bow bells, in other words a true working class Londoner) rhyming slang.
Rhyming Slang was invented by the London underworld to enable criminals to speak to each other in public without anyone knowing what they’re talking about. Thus, for instance, “stairs” becomes “apple and pears”. But it gets more difficult than that because usually the second part is left off. So rather than going up the apples and pears you go up the apples.
To read the cockney version of the story, written in a persona adopted for the purpose, continue here: