The Story Of English Program 7 The Muvver Tongue Complete
Program seven in the series The Story of English explains the root and the reach of Cockney English. Cockney originated in London's East End, the home of many poor, downtrodden people. The English legal system, in an effort to eradicate the "criminal class," transported convicts to Australia during the early 19th century. This video has footage at Spittlefield's market that show examples of Cockney rhyming slang and also explains Cockney back-slang ("yob" equal "boy"). The Cockney way is contrasted with upper-class speech and the varieties of Australian English are explored and sampled. Robert McNeil hosts
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That speech synthesizer repeating, "Ow are ya mayte" over and over cracks me up 😁
At the 49:00 mark, that ad with Paul Hogan, he should've said at the end, "I'll slip an extra PRAWN on the barbie(barbeque) for ya*" (*ya is the Aussie accent-affected manner of saying of "You"). We in Australia know that crustacean as the PRAWN, plural is PRAWNS. We have NEVER called them SHRIMP!
@michaelsommers2356
6 жыл бұрын
The add was meant to be shown in the US, not Australia. 'Prawn' is not used in the US.
@neilforbes416
6 жыл бұрын
+Michael Sommers: There's the point. The fact that the ad was to be run in the USA meant that Hogan had the perfect opportunity to teach the Americans the CORRECT name for that seafood delicacy.... but he squibbed it!
@michaelsommers2356
6 жыл бұрын
It's an ad, not a dialect coach. To teach, both words would have had to have been used: "Put another prawn, which you lot correctly call a shrimp, on the barbie."
@neilforbes416
6 жыл бұрын
It was a tourism ad. but when an Aussie icon like Paul Hogan is trying to sell Australia to a bunch of potential Yankie tourists, the least he can do is use correct names for seafood delicacies.
@michaelsommers2356
6 жыл бұрын
He _did_ use the correct name.
33:20 the strangest rendition of "Waltzing Matilda" I've ever heard... The melody is upside down and inside out!
@neilforbes416
6 жыл бұрын
It's the more traditional rendition of the song.
@giuseppelogiurato5718
6 жыл бұрын
Neil Forbes oh... In that case I guess it's the more familiar version that is indeed "strange". 😃
@neilforbes416
6 жыл бұрын
+Giuseppe, There have been a number of different ways in which "Waltzing Matilda" had been performed through the years since first written by Andrew Barton "Banjo" Patterson. The version heard in this edition is likely closest to the earliest version, thus it's more "authentic-sounding" than other renditions.
@michaelsommers2356
6 жыл бұрын
It is sung by the English folksinger A.L. Lloyd, from the album _The Great Australian Legend_ from Topic Records.
@giuseppelogiurato5718
6 жыл бұрын
Neil Forbes yes, the words are the original Banjo P. stuff, and this may indeed have been the preferred melody used for his words in his time, but the melody in this film only vaguely resembles what the world at large, (including Australia), knows to be the tune to "Waltzing Matilda"... They are so melodically different that I struggle to see the modern/better-known tune as having evolved from the archaic/lesser-known tune, despite the obviously similar chord structure... It's like hearing "Auld Lang Syne" sung to some other tune, such as Händel's "Joy to the World"; it works, but it's weird... Of course, this is a video about language, not music... The melody is hardly the point, in this context at least... I just realized I am WAY off-topic! Lol 😉
The song at the end sounds a lot like "The Dubliners"...
@michaelsommers2356
6 жыл бұрын
It's "Lime Juice Tub", sung by the English folksinger A.L. Lloyd on the album _The Great Australian Legend_ from Topic Records.
@giuseppelogiurato5718
6 жыл бұрын
Michael Sommers ☺ lol, it's been so long since I watched this, I'll have to re-listen to the song to understand what I meant by my comment, but thank you for the info; I always enjoy learning more about music... Happy St Patrick day, btw!
@michaelsommers2356
6 жыл бұрын
Here's another version: kzread.info/dash/bejne/dnuZudKwe5Xekrw.html
it's a shame Cockney in London is pretty much a dead language, where I was born (Sussex) was a popular choice for londoners to move to after the 80/90's. As a result I picked up a lot of cockney words and slang from my peers at school
@beatonthedonis
6 жыл бұрын
It isn't a shame - Cockney has moved out to the home counties and pushed out older more rural varieties. It's life.
Great series; however, I´m a little disappointed as we are presented mostly with men, as though women didn´t speak the language or as if they hadn´t influenced the language´s evolution. Women might have not been allowed to write or study yet they did speak the language and taught it to their children.
@beatonthedonis
6 жыл бұрын
That's the sound of a teenage virgin/man who hasn't had sex in 20 years.
@giuseppelogiurato5718
6 жыл бұрын
Mercedes Fernández for one, you're wrong; there are just as many women in this series as are required, no more, no less... And secondly, if this series was indeed an exercise in chauvinism, (which I maintain it is not), so what? You should make your own doc and it can blessedly free of "Y" chromosomes, if that's what blows your skirt up.
@michaelsommers2356
6 жыл бұрын
Doesn't Dame Edna count?
@diggledoggle4192
5 жыл бұрын
It's not about equally representing both sexes (which it does by the way) but presenting the facts.
@LisaBeergutHolst
4 жыл бұрын
@Mercedes Fernández: Good point.