Hope you enjoyed this lesson! Isn't my nan great??!!!

@pikordinho.o2

4 жыл бұрын

She is an angel❤❤❤

@cyclistRM2024

4 жыл бұрын

She is really desirable 😚

@mamymimma

4 жыл бұрын

She's lovely 😍

@rezza2507

4 жыл бұрын

I'll say. We really enjoyed watching this lesson. ×× I fancy learning the cockney rhyming slang.😍😍 The material was so attractive. Your nan is great. She's clever, interactive, and awesome as well! 😍

@LoveEnglishwithLeilaSabrah

4 жыл бұрын

She is! She’s actually even more funny in real life! 😊💕

I',m an American that grew up in London, with English dad. We had a proper cockney fella living next door. Funniest guy ever. Had nicknames for everyone in the neighborhood. I was Sean the Prawn. I have lived in the US since 1993 but we still use cockney slang once in awhile. funny stuff. Great video.

@jimmorrison3035

2 жыл бұрын

Funny eh the things watching this brings back in Belfast we give people nicknames as well . Was on vacation once and having an eating disorder i was concerned about getting sick. I knew eggs beacon were ok so that’s what I had at breakfast as well as a second plate of beacon. The first day my wife and I gave people nicknames, John Travolta , little and large, Day tripper , and so on . Next morning I met people originally from Belfast who are friends 20 years later here in Canada, at breakfast I got my eggs and beacon his wife said to him isn’t he the guy we saw yesterday at breakfast with all the beacon ? He said yeah we called you heart attack on a plate. 😂😂😂.

@DeirdreCatherineDoyle

11 ай бұрын

my son is sean ... would not rhyme with prawn though on reflection BEST RHYMING!

@grinchoi1

5 ай бұрын

i love Cockney Rhyming slang. me and my homeboys would use a hip hop cockney rhyming slang hybrid

@blade_warrior_blue

3 күн бұрын

Wow I can relate. I'm an American who also grew up in London. Although I've been back in the states since 2006. When I first came back to America no one could even understand me anymore. The cockney accent was prevelant among the working class accent but my generation was chavs and road men, the black kids and white kids on my estate had this mashup of cockney slang and Jamaican street slang. Im originally from Brooklyn which is a strong accent to begin with so picking up that accent and not fully losing my New York accent mixed with cockney slang and sounding even more British when I'm angry made me sound foreign to everyone.

Bringing your grandma will just make this lesson extremely special. xxxx

@LoveEnglishwithLeilaSabrah

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I’m glad you enjoyed it 👍💕☺️

Loved it! And Granny follows your words with the lips!

@mrd3016

2 жыл бұрын

I think Nan may be a bit hard of hearing so she is kinda reading lips a little. Cute innit?

@Shels_pwnz

Жыл бұрын

I had to come to the comments to make sure I wasn't loosing my mind lol. She was almost mouthing the words before they were even said!

I knew many of these, though guessed a few.. love learning new phrases. Your Nan is adorable and lovely so lucky to have her.

I am a country bumpkin from Bama. And because of some of my favorite shows like "Call the Midwife, Father Brown, Sister Boniface, Poirot and a couple of others" I have fell in love with the Cockney slang language. Very fascinating.

Love your Nan. She’s a proper sort. I’m I correct in assuming that a lot of Eastenders migrated to Essex with all the redevelopment of that part of London. I lived and worked in London in the 70’s and had a few friends whose families were “Bow Bells” Londoners and they loved to try and trip this Yank up with various cockney slang. Great people. Salt of the earth.

This lesson was really interesting and fun. I really really really enjoyed watching this. It turns out there are so many many many Cockney rhyming slang words and phrases. I have just learnt them all from this video. Afterwards, I also learnt the others such as * Apples and pears = stairs. * Bob Hope = soap. * Duke of Kent = rent. * Laugh and a joke = smoke. * Fireman's hose = nose. * Jam jar = car. * Loop-the-loop = soup. * Sausage roll = goal. * Skin and blister = sister. * Tables and chairs = stairs. And there are still many more. Thus, both apples and pears have quite similar meaning with tables and chairs: They mean "stairs" in Cockney rhyming slang words and phrases. Unbelieveable!

@jhonadam1420

11 ай бұрын

When bruce woodcock whent up in the world he changed his name to oakhaton

I grew up in London,didnt use cockney but learned some if it from friends.Have taught a few to my iwn family I live in America and English confuses them sometimes. 😮😅😂

Nan is adorable! I love that she was mouthing every word you were saying. Yes! We want more.

What a peculiar way to speak! Very fun. Thanks to you Nan!

@zonabrown9241

10 ай бұрын

Its not peculiar

@FSAPOJake

9 ай бұрын

​@@zonabrown9241It was designed to be in the first place.

Even though my grandparents were from England, I learned rhyming slang from an Aussie friend that used it all the time. His favorite was, "I nearly fell on my Cayber (Pass - ass)!" The list was endless, but what a hoot!

@auldfouter8661

9 ай бұрын

= Kyber Pass between Afghanistan and India ( now Pakistan ).

@paulelmes

9 ай бұрын

KHYBER sir ! Isn't a caber a tree trunk that Scots toss about to advertise porridge?

Thanks for all of your lessons in life. I grew up in the south and we have our own slang that we use too

I'm Australian and grew up with rhyming slang! My mum is English born and dad's family is mostly British so we had it from both sides! I remember everytime we were leaving somewhere dad would say "time to hit the frog and toad"!

@secretwatcher9922

8 ай бұрын

Most of the words that the English use the Aussies use.

@TheByard

8 ай бұрын

We used to ave one, maybe free for the frog. that's if the old bill weren't about.

Your Nan is lovely how wonderful of you to share such love and amazing information ❤

Lovely class. Great Nan! I would love to see the modern version too.

Great video. Your Grand Mother is absolutly lovely!

@LoveEnglishwithLeilaSabrah

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I love her heaps! She’s even more funny in real life! 😂👍💕

It's been a splendid lesson. Your Gran is a perfect 10. A

Fortunately, there is now online translator programs, but i am thankful for this video. I tried using one of those translators to convert American English to Cockney, and was terribly confused by phrases that seemed out of place. Now i realize why.

@avaggdu1

8 ай бұрын

I think the septic's are ready for Brooklyn Rhyming Slang. Maybe you should create it with a more American slant?

I worked with a lot of cockney guys and the key to using rhyming slang is: you don't tell people 'I'm going up the apples and pears' you just say 'I'm going up the apples.' And, I'm going to comb my barnet.'

@treeskates

9 ай бұрын

That’s how I first heard about it too-just using the first word and not the second rhyming word.

I loved it!! Thank you so much for doing this. Your nan is beautiful and just add character to the lesson. Bless her heart and you ❤

Lovely lesson-cockney rhyming slag is my favourite thing to learn while living in the UK.

@LoveEnglishwithLeilaSabrah

4 жыл бұрын

Well done you for trying to learn this crazy slang! Totally fun though! 😊👍💕

Thanks for your video, I loved this video, it was great thank you for introduce your grandmother she is very lovely.🤗😉

Love your Nan. She is great. I knew many of these and guessed a few. I am from Boston, Massachusetts and have no idea where I learned the Cockeysville slang that I know, but here are two of my favorites: bottles and stoppers = coppers and the lady from Bristol = pistol. Really enjoyed this video.

Thank you! I love learning love learning “local languages “ like this. I have also been learning Hawaiian Pidgin

More lessons please! Your "Nan" is lovely 😊

Your Grandmother is Charming. I wish her good health.

Your nan is a precious diamond...adorable! And the answer to your question is...yes, she shoudda be paid, but not with money...only love, kisses and affection! Merry Christmas, Leila!

Yes, please do a video about the current cockney rhyming slang! I'm very curious about the process how it appears and becomes widely used. When someone comes up with a phrase he doesn't actually know will it become widely used or not, right? interesting and uncontrollable process :)))

Wow, funny and jolly great lesson! Leila, you and your Nan look so sweet together! It's obvious that you're very close and you get on REALLY well.👍🤗😍We wish you both all the best! Catch you in another lesson! Bye-bye!👋💗❤️💛

With the majority of convicts from the East end transported to New South Wales, cockney is the mother of the Australian accent. We still use rhyming slang here, although not as much.

Waiting eagerly for part two! ♥️

My Mum was a proper Cockney, born in. the East End of London. She used some rhyming slang but I think it was my uncles that mostly used it. She left London in her teens, but her accent still came out when she was flustered, or speaking on the telephone. She also had some odd pronunciations - like 'Um-ber-ella' for Umbrella, 'Pudden' for pudding, 'Chimbley' for 'Chimney', and the one that used to have me in hysterics when she said it - Hospital was pronounced 'Horse-piddle.' She never understood why I found that so funny.

@avaggdu1

8 ай бұрын

My sister and her husband were from Nottingham but my niece was born 'dahn sarf' and didn't appreciate me laughing when she asked for a "cap of tay". Gotta say, an East End accent sounds Australian to my thick Midland ears, which kinda makes sense when you know that a lot of the original Aussie colonists were criminals from London.

Lovely granny!!!!!! I love this lesson!!!!

A big HELLO for your NAN...she is very pretty .Merry Christmas to her in advance.

Great story, what a lovely nan.

My mom used to say “Won’t be seen on a trotting’ horse”. It meant that it won’t be noticed. She also used to say, “I’m sweating like a butcher”. So funny! She was an American (she’s passed away). Another one was, “I’m Tired and feathered”. I use these sayings sometimes. It makes me “special”. Thank you, Nan.

@wiccanwarrior9

8 ай бұрын

'Tarred and feathered'....

This video is so tender! Love it!

Interesting lesson! You are proud of your Nan.

@LoveEnglishwithLeilaSabrah

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, she’s a wonderful nan! 😊💕

I had a smile on my face the whole time. ❤ I love those things (I'm native French and English bilingual)

My grandmum was a Cockney although she moved out of the UK when she was very young. Even so, she retained most of her Cockney slang. Fortunately, I've inherited some of her delightful slang.

When I was a kid I used to watch a British sitcom “Mind your language” and in that show there was a guy by the name of Sid who used speak in Cockney and that’s how I came to know this eccentric way of speaking English. Few of the words I learnt as; Plates of meet - Feet China plate - Mate Uncle ned - Head Brahms & liszt - Pissed (Drunk) Jack the dandy - Brandy Really fascinated by this....

@mohammadabdulfarooqi3068

Жыл бұрын

@@gil658 AH-so not a**hole

@andygozzo72

2 ай бұрын

sid was the caretaker 😉

I heard Wife as Trouble and strife, your nan is precious. great video

Your grandmother or nan is very sweet . Please tell her thank you for the Cockney lesson.

Amazing love this cuz, Nan did amazing love you both . Well done 👍

@LoveEnglishwithLeilaSabrah

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks hun x

What a delightful language lesson from a very nice British family. Quite a bit of intelligence and substance to absorb rather quickly over a Vera Lynn. I can't thank you enough. Cheerio!

You “storm and strife” is definitely your wife, not just in Cockney rhyming slang, but also it is a great definition!

@johncecil7196

9 ай бұрын

trouble and strife

Can you say "He took the apples and pears to the dog bone, and then got a cup of rosy?" This whole thing is fascinating!

@KathrynLiz1

10 ай бұрын

.... take a ball of chalk down the Kermit to the German for a pigs with yer chinas...... rake a walk down the road to the pub for a beer with your mates.

@lindanoble6727

10 ай бұрын

Yes

"Pass the dead horse" is what my brother-in-law said to me. I had no clue what he was talking about. He grew up with some English background in a country town in Australia. I grew up in a Greek household speaking a lot of Greek. I had never heard of Cockney rhyming slang up to that point. "Pass the tomato sauce" is the translation....

@peterwalker5677

9 ай бұрын

I guess he wanted it for his maggot bag (meat pie).

@toddbrittain1060

4 ай бұрын

@@peterwalker5677 or his dog's eye

Great lesson!

I do enjoy your lessons. You have a lovely accent and I like the way you pronounce the words. Please pass our regards to your nan. You have done just great as always :)

@LoveEnglishwithLeilaSabrah

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you ☺️

Really enjoyed this! A lot of these are familiar to me as my partner is English and her Dad and Nan were from East London, and my Irish parents used similar phrases (e.g. 'Your skin and blister' = your sister). Another English slang phrase I love is 'off to Bedfordshire' or 'up the stairs to Bedfordshire' when going to bed.

Great lesson. Love it.

@LoveEnglishwithLeilaSabrah

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I’ll tell my grandmother 👵🏻 👍

Enjoyed this immensely. Especially how Grandmothers lips pantomimed her granddaughters words so WELL.... fun. ❤😅❤😅❤😅

I really enjoyed this video, thank you guys 😍😍😍🤗🤗🤗

@LoveEnglishwithLeilaSabrah

4 жыл бұрын

Thank YOU! 👍💕😊

Nan is a treasure! Thanks for much!

Hi Leila your grandma is a lovely person I hope you happy holidays 😉🇧🇷

I’ve wondered about Cockney and how it is spoken. I enjoyed learning! In the movie “Ocean’s Eleven” the Cockney phrase “ In Barney Rubble” was used, by the Brit character, and none of the American characters understood what he meant, lol!

@mariacarvalho9539

8 ай бұрын

What does it mean?

Thanks Leila, for this video, you're so helpful. I wish you and Sabrah a happy Christmas 🔥🔥❤

@LoveEnglishwithLeilaSabrah

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! Merry Christmas to you! 😊👍💕

Nan is a legend ..total lah di dah 🌟

Priceless THANK U!!!

I am born in the sound of the bo bells and proud lol can’t beat the old school though give ya nan a cuddle from me darlin she’s lovely bless her 🥰

Please do more I love it!!!

Quite interesting! Love it!

Hi granny , love ya ... Sorry Leila not for loving you 😂 actually today my whole interest is in our cute granny . You know I don't have my own grandma , she left us the year before I was born , so I didn't even see her but still I love her . I always feel so sad when I see other kids playing with their grandparents . Yeah , I don't have my grandparents in fact . Love ya , and wish you a Merry Christmas and an advanced happy new year . Stay blessed and keep helping us .

This was quite interesting and having a Gran named Sheila can be no wrong.

Butcher’s Hook can also mean crook as in sick or unwell. In Australia we often say Captain’s Cook for Butcher’s Hook but we shorten it to Captain’s.

Happy holidays to everyone. 🎅

I came across rhyming slang in a Dick Francis book. Several were mentioned, but now the only one I remember is Nuns, short for nuns and habits meaning rabbits. Thank you for expanding my vocabulary.

You're grandmother seems to know the script very well XD

@tbrown1110

3 жыл бұрын

Dick. Nan losing her memory and she’s trying to stay on top by mimicking her grans pace. Mirroring is used to keep the mind moving. Read a book sometime

@matthewthechalk

2 жыл бұрын

@@tbrown1110 Bruh you need to chill

Love to your Nan and her great grand kids. ❤

I learned a lot from Del boy, he used a lot if slang. Ruby Murray I remember.

So am I, a Londoner and proud of it!

I always used the wording as trouble and strife as wife , never heard of a storm and strife .

That is by far the best video! Your nan is splendiferous.In order to show you my love for this video,I posted a story on Instagram.I would be even more grateful if you could repost the story because I tagged you!!!

i lived in Hayes a while .. Its Middlesex . You can get a good Ruby Murry around there .The intro took longer than the actual lesson but i still enjoyed .. God Bless yer nan

@barrywolff4186

3 жыл бұрын

Its a Ruby Murray isn't it?

I was sure A Clockwork Orange was going to be mentioned. Great video!

I learned about this from the movie To Sir With Love when the boy says he's gone up the frog. And they explained Frog and Toad and Apples And Pairs, etc.. I've found it interesting ever since. Being American I don't hear it unless its in a movie of course LOL.

It's Trouble and strife for wife, saucepan lids for kids. I used to teach this to my more advanced ESL students. It took a bit of explaining but once they got the hang of it, they were hooked.

Love it!!

thank you so much, this is the best video of Cockney slang I watched

Really amazing how your nan mimics your words with her lips. That was the most impressing.

Please share more new Cockeysville expressions. Bravo !

My favourite piece of rhyming slang is Aris, as in kicked me up the aris. It's pretty common, and amuses me because it's two stage rhyming slang. Bottle for arse, then aristotle for bottle, which is shortened to aris.

I'll say. We really enjoyed watching this lesson. ×× I fancy learning the cockney rhyming slang.😍😍 The material was so attractive. Your nan is great. She's clever, interactive, and awesome as well! 😍

Awesome! Well done!

Lovely!

mam i salute your hardwork

Hi Leila, Truly amazing lesson with your grandmother. I admire your efforts. Some other examples: 1. Barney - rubble = trouble. 2. Baked - bean= queen. 3. Rabbit - pork = talk. 4. Half - inch = pinch. 5. Dog - bone = phone. Thank you.

You are awesome ❤️

This was great fun! Unfortunately, the audio could have been better. Wish you a Merry Christmas!

@LoveEnglishwithLeilaSabrah

4 жыл бұрын

In the second half, yes, it wasn’t great. Sorry! 👍💕

Lovely lesson amazing video Leila

@LoveEnglishwithLeilaSabrah

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! 😊

The best thing is that nan is answering in code where she doesn't reveal the actual rhyming word and keeps you guessing

My dad was a true cockney so I grew up learning this.

Sheesh, who knew? Great stuff!

I got some it's be a time since I heard it. thank you lass was lots of fun. you've a new subscriber.

I'm studying Cockney rhyming slang for my newest D&D character. He speaks what's called Theive's Cant, which is kind of like Cockney rhyming slang.

I once read a story where a Cockney was telling someone else to "use yer tuppenny." He meant "tuppenny loaf," a further extension of "loaf of bread." I also heard an older one for "gin" - "mother's ruin," with the final syllable of "ruin" exaggerated to make the rhyme work. Had you heard either of those?

@avaggdu1

8 ай бұрын

The origin of Mother's Ruin is debateable. Gin was the first alcohol that allowed women to drink alongside men, which led to alcoholism, other health problems and women resorting to prostitution (hence, Mother's Ruin) so the assumption it is rhyming slang is tenuous. "Mother's Ruin" is too on-the-nose to look for origins beyond 'it does what is says on the tin'. Other true rhyming slang for gin are 'needle and pin' or 'nose and chin'. Vera Lynn won a court case to prevent her trademarked name from being used (commercially at least) - not that it would stop Cockneys from using her name as they wished.

@lisagulick4144

8 ай бұрын

@@avaggdu1Well, it was only a novel, which is why I asked. The story was set too far back in the past for Vera's name to be the rhyme. Shame...the author should have done a little more research!

@avaggdu1

8 ай бұрын

@@lisagulick4144 No argument there. It's just my opinion that mother's ruin is a poor rhyme compared to other rhyming slang (kinda defeats the purpose if it doesn't really rhyme!). It's often quoted in dictionaries of rhyming slang so I could easily be wrong, but I'd put money on it having another origin.

@lisagulick4144

8 ай бұрын

@@avaggdu1 Aha! No wonder the author goofed up! And I thought it rang a little false myself...it certainly didn't trip off the tongue the way "flag unfurled" or "clubs and sticks" did! The novel, BTW, was an alt-Sherlock Holmes adventure titled _The Whitechapel Horrors,_ in which - you guessed it - Holmes and Watson are chasing Jack the Ripper!

@avaggdu1

8 ай бұрын

@@lisagulick4144 Not wishing to be a goof myself, I did a little research. It seems the experts (such as Eric Partridge in his A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English) agree with me when he says it's a poor rhyme and more likely to be literal. Gin was known as Madam Geneva, Mother Gin, Mother's MIlk amongst other things, depicted in cartoons of the 1800's as a ruined woman who didn't even care if her child was on fire due to being drunk on gin. I claim that as a win for rational thinking and deduction worthy of Sherlock Holmes! ☺ I have no idea why Sherlock and Dr. Watson were chasing a kipper though...🤔

Gran was just wonderful...

I love the blue polka dot tablecloth