{"id":18831,"date":"2023-06-09T02:49:13","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T00:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/the-cockney-alphabet\/"},"modified":"2023-06-09T02:49:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T00:49:13","slug":"the-cockney-alphabet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/the-cockney-alphabet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cockney Alphabet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From smulrine@cs.strath.ac.uk Sat Jan  6 02:03:35 1990<br \/>\nFrom: smulrine@cs.strath.ac.uk (Stephen K Mulrine)<br \/>\nSubject: Re: Cockney Alphabet<\/p>\n<p>A for &#8216;Orses \t\t(&#8216;ay for &#8216;orses)<br \/>\nB for Mutton \t\t(Beef or Mutton)<br \/>\nC for Miles  \t\t(see for miles)<br \/>\nD for Ential \t\t(Differential)<br \/>\nE for Brick\t\t(&#8216;Eave a Brick)<br \/>\nF for Vessence\t\t(Effervescence)<br \/>\nG for Get It\t\t(Gee, forget it!)<br \/>\nH for Bless You\t\t(Aitsshfa! A sneeze)<br \/>\nI for The Engine\t(Ivor the Engine)<br \/>\nJ for Oranges\t\t(Jaffa Oranges)<br \/>\nK for Restaurant\t(Cafe or Restaurant)<br \/>\nL for Leather\t\t(&#8216;Ell for Leather)<br \/>\nM for Sis\t\t(Emphasis)<br \/>\nN for Lope\t\t(Envelope)<br \/>\nO for The Garden Wall\t(Over the Garden Wall)<br \/>\nP for Relief\t\t(??)<br \/>\nQ for a Bus\t\t(Queue for a Bus)<br \/>\nR for Mo\t\t(&#8216;alf a Mo)<br \/>\nS for Rantzen\t\t(Esther Rantzen)<br \/>\nT for Two\t\t(Tea for Two)<br \/>\nU for Me\t\t(You for Me)<br \/>\nV for La France\t\t(Vive la France)<br \/>\nW for the Winnings\t(Double you for the Winnings)<br \/>\nX for Breakfast\t\t(Eggs for Breakfast)<br \/>\nY for Husband\t\t(Wife or Husband)<br \/>\nZ for Wind\t\t(Zephyr Wind)<\/p>\n<p>Source: The Second Book of Jigsaw Puzzles<br \/>\n\t(published by Knight Books \/ British Broadcasting Corporation)<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\n+&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-+  +&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;+    +&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;+<br \/>\n| Stephen K Mulrine |&#8211;| &#8220;DO DUP I SWAP PLOT&#8221; &#8211; Forth |&#8211;+ | Robotron 2048 |-+<br \/>\n+&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-+&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;+&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;+&#8212;-++ |<br \/>\n  | Ministry |&#8212;| Favourite film: &#8220;Merry Christmas Mr Ceausescu&#8221; |&#8211;| \ud83d\ude42 |&#8211;+<br \/>\n  +&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-+   +&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;+  +&#8212;-+<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-18831 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='18831' data-nonce='65e0e39b87' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-18831 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-18831 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From smulrine@cs.strath.ac.uk Sat Jan 6 02:03:35 1990 From: smulrine@cs.strath.ac.uk (Stephen K Mulrine) Subject: Re: Cockney Alphabet A&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[109,27],"class_list":["post-18831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-othernonsense","tag-cockney","tag-english","wpcat-7-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18832,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18831\/revisions\/18832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}