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(CBS News) Rest in peace, Cockney rhyming slang. Apparently Britons no longer know the "dickie birds" (words). According to a new poll, the whimsical dialect associated with London's working class is ...

As alarmist headlines go, they were pretty puzzling. “Teenagers Aren’t Bobby Moore About Their Ruby Murrays and Their Rosie Lee,” fretted one British tabloid this week. “Is Cockney Rhyming Slang Brown ...

For the next three months a cluster of East London ATMs will be offering customers the chance to withdraw cash using written prompts in Cockney rhyming slang. It works by replacing a word with a short ...

Over the next three months, a cluster of East London ATMs will be offering customers the chance to withdraw cash using written prompts in Cockney rhyming slang, the area's colorful and often ...

The East End’s Eliza Doolittles have long since moved away–not to rural Hertford, Hereford and Hampshire, mind you, but to suburban Essex and Kent, where their cockney rhyming slang is hardly heard.

A UK company has decided to roll out some fun cash machines in London for the next three months. Instead of seeing the options displayed on the cash machine in the Queen’s English, these ATMs will ...

A place where everyone is looking ahead eagerly, we must presume - to the opening of the Olympics this summer. NPR's London-based correspondent, Philip Reeves, sends us an occasional letter about the ...