{"id":64069,"date":"2022-07-25T01:19:25","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T05:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.edu\/?p=64069"},"modified":"2022-07-25T01:19:25","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T05:19:25","slug":"is-australian-rhyming-slang-in-a-bit-of-froth-and-bubble-lets-take-a-captain-cook-spoiler-the-billy-lids-may-hold-the-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/is-australian-rhyming-slang-in-a-bit-of-froth-and-bubble-lets-take-a-captain-cook-spoiler-the-billy-lids-may-hold-the-key\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Australian rhyming slang in a bit of froth and bubble? Let\u2019s take a Captain Cook (spoiler: the billy lids may hold the key)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Have you heard? Barry Crocker\u2019s\u00a0having<\/a>\u00a0a \u2026 well,\u00a0Barry Crocker<\/em>\u00a0(\u201cshocker\u201d) of a time with those\u00a0Reg Grundies<\/em>\u00a0(\u201cundies\u201d) people.<\/p>\n

Karens<\/em><\/a>\u00a0everywhere can relate \u2013 they know it\u2019s\u00a0Jeffed<\/em><\/a>\u00a0up when your\u00a0Danned<\/em><\/a>\u00a0name gets swept up in social parlance.<\/p>\n

And sure, Crocker has a point. We\u2019ve got to draw the line somewhere when these corporate\u00a0Noahs<\/em>\u00a0(\u201csharks\u201d, from \u201cNoah\u2019s Ark\u201d) claim our names.<\/p>\n

But we reckon having your name become part of the old\u00a0Jack Lang<\/em>\u00a0(\u201cslang\u201d) \u2013 especially Aussie rhyming slang \u2013 is\u00a0apples<\/em>\u00a0(\u201cnice\u201d, from \u201capples and spice\u201d). So let\u2019s take a\u00a0Captain Cook<\/em>\u00a0(\u201clook\u201d) at what\u2019s so special about rhyming slang.<\/p>\n

Terces segaugnal: enter the world of secret languages<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Over the years there have been many secret languages in English, and all of them distort words in some way, often with remarkable skill. Particularly impressive is the flip-flop of backslang, when words are said backwards \u2014 \u201csecret languages\u201d becomes \u201cterces segaugnal\u201d (yob<\/em>\u00a0\u201cboy\u201d is a rare survivor of Victorian-era backslang).<\/p>\n

The disguise prevents bystanders or eavesdroppers from understanding what\u2019s being said, but mainly it operates a bit like a \u201cclique\u201d or in-group recognition device. Being able to manipulate language in this way means you\u2019re automatically part of the gang \u2014 it\u2019s also a matter of identifying what\u2019s become routine for those involved, much like slang and jargon generally.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s the fun of the game, too, and rhyming slang is a real lexical and etymological pass the parcel. Often we don\u2019t even know we\u2019re playing it. Sidney Baker\u00a0gives<\/a>\u00a0a wonderful example:\u00a0Melbourne<\/em>\u00a0(\u201cback\u201d) from\u00a0Melbourne Grammar<\/em>\u00a0(\u201chammer\u201d) from\u00a0hammer and tack<\/em>\u00a0(\u201cback\u201d), which, it so happens, is also rhyming slang for\u00a0zac<\/em>\u00a0(\u201csixpence\u201d) \u2014 so\u00a0Melbourne<\/em>\u00a0is also a \u201csixpence\u201d!<\/p>\n

The comic cuts (\u201cguts\u201d) of Aussie rhymin\u2019 Jack Lang<\/strong><\/h2>\n

There\u2019s no sign of rhyming slang before the 1800s. Not a single example appears in the first edition of Captain Grose\u2019s\u00a0Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue<\/a>\u00a0(from 1785). Dating early slang is tricky, especially if it\u2019s a secret language, but if rhyming slang had been around then, it would be among Grose\u2019s 4,000 colloquialisms and vulgarisms.<\/p>\n

The earliest reference to it occurs in John Camden Hotten\u2019s 1859\u00a0slang dictionary<\/a>. Hotten suggests this kind of slang \u201cwas introduced about twelve or fifteen years ago\u201d.<\/p>\n

People assume it began life within criminal language, and certainly this was where it was first discovered. But most likely it was the lexical invention of Cockney and Irish navvies (labourers in civil engineering projects). It later made its way into the \u201cflash language\u201d of the Victorian underworld.<\/p>\n

These beginnings explain the presence of rhyming slang in early Australian English. The first recorded example (1844) is\u00a0Jimmy Grant<\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0jimmygrant<\/em>\u00a0for \u201cimmigrant\u201d. Whoever he was, Jimmy Grant went on to inspire the\u00a0Pom\/Pommy<\/em>, short for\u00a0pomegranate<\/em>\u00a0(Pommy Grant<\/em>, also \u201cimmigrant\u201d). The Australian National Dictionary has a lovely\u00a0account<\/a>\u00a0of the word play around the jimmies and the pommies.<\/p>\n

Other early examples date from the late 1800s (like\u00a0rubbity dub<\/em>\u00a0\u201cpub\u201d), although most of today\u2019s survivors are from the 1900s, including favourites like\u00a0dead horse<\/em>\u00a0(\u201csauce\u201d) and\u00a0she\u2019s apples<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAustralian\u201d rhyming slang in the USA<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Our\u00a0seppo chinas<\/em>\u00a0(\u201cmates\u201d from \u201cchina plates\u201d) haven\u2019t taken up rhyming slang as much as we Aussies. In the US, rhyming slang has largely stayed in the criminal underworld \u2013 it\u2019s been popular among\u00a0prisoners<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0white supremacists<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But it may surprise you to learn that rhyming slang in the US underworld was called \u201cAustralian slang\u201d. This may be\u00a0linked<\/a>\u00a0to the arrival of Australian criminals, the Sydney Ducks, on the US goldfields in the mid-19th century. The Ducks later did a\u00a0Harold Holt<\/em>\u00a0(\u201cbolt\u201d) and left the US \u2014 they also may have left a word or two, and the label \u201cAustralian slang\u201d.<\/p>\n

Regardless, the Australian-ness of US rhyming slang is certainly in doubt. When a US expert on slang and argots, David W. Maurer, sent a list of 352 rhyming slang terms to Sidney Baker, the latter\u00a0found<\/a>\u00a0fewer than 3% of these terms were Australian \u2014 just like many of our so-called Americanisms aren\u2019t in fact American English.<\/p>\n

Jimmy, Herby and Oscar: the grocer\u2019s cart (\u201cheart\u201d) of Aussie rhyming slang<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Rhyming slang is still much loved if the amount of talk is anything to go by.<\/p>\n

As part of a wider\u00a0project<\/a>\u00a0on Aussie slang, we examined articles from The Australian and The Age from 1996-2020 and found that, respectively, 7.32% and 10.70% of references to \u201cslang\u201d were to \u201crhyming slang\u201d. We can compare this to combined references to \u201cAustralian slang\u201d or \u201cAussie slang\u201d, which clocked in at 7.01% and 9.05%.<\/p>\n

But what is it about the old\u00a0Jack Lang<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 this Aussie rhyming slang?<\/p>\n

We reckon rhyming slang hits that sweet spot of secret, taboo and irreverent humour. For instance, every good Aussie knows that a\u00a0seppo<\/em>\u00a0is full of shit (Yank<\/em>->septic tank<\/em>->septic<\/em>->seppo<\/em>) \u2013 but a\u00a0seppo<\/em>\u00a0doesn\u2019t necessarily.<\/p>\n

However, whether it\u2019s\u00a0Jimmy Dancer<\/em>\u00a0(\u201ccancer\u201d),\u00a0Herby de Groote<\/em>\u00a0(\u201croot\u201d) or\u00a0Oscar Ache<\/em>\u00a0(\u201ccash\u201d), rhyming slang also gives us a way to discuss things that make us squeamish \u2013 like disease, sex and money.<\/p>\n

Is the rhyming Jack Lang in for some froth and bubble?<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Barry Crocker might be getting his\u00a0Reg Grundies<\/em>\u00a0in a knot over the ad, but if our recent survey is an indicator, rhyming slang is in for some\u00a0froth and bubble<\/em>\u00a0(\u201ctrouble\u201d).<\/p>\n

We\u00a0surveyed<\/a>\u00a0more than 2,300 Australians on their use of Australian words. Most rhyming slang examples came from participants who were 60 or older.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s happening? It\u2019s hard to know for sure, but slangs are like this \u2013 they don\u2019t age well. We can\u2019t expect those\u00a0billy lids<\/em>\u00a0(\u201ckids\u201d) to love the same words as us.<\/p>\n

In fact,\u00a0billy<\/em>\u2019s a great example of this process \u2013 it might be giving way to a new slang homonym\u00a0billy<\/em>, referring to a \u201cbong\u201d (likely a play on\u00a0billabong<\/em>). (For those not in the know, a\u00a0billy<\/em>\u00a0is a special kind of\u00a0cherry ripe<\/em>\u00a0\u201cpipe\u201d.)<\/p>\n

And, in closing, it is worth noting our survey shows another glimmer of hope for rhyming slang. One grandmother in the survey said:<\/p>\n

\u201cI taught Reg Grundies to my granddaughter. She thinks it\u2019s funny. She is 7.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sidney Baker long ago\u00a0pointed out<\/a>\u00a0that Australian rhyming slang\u2019s popularity comes and goes in waves of vogue. Perhaps there\u2019s a new generation of rhyming slang users on the horizon. And right now, we\u2019re pinning our hope on the under-10 set.<\/p>\n

Author Bios: <\/strong>Howard Manns is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and Kate Burridge is Professor of Linguistic both at Monash University<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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