The English language is full of quirky idioms and ways of speaking, but surely one of the quirkiest is Cockney rhyming slang. Although most historians agree Cockney rhyming slang originated in the East-end of London in the mid-nineteenth century, there are various theories as to how this particularly British linguistic phenomenon came about. The most common . . . → Read More: Cockney rhyming slang: you won’t Adam and Eve it!
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Sniglets Have you ever heard of Sniglets? The person who coined this term, actor/comedian Rich Hall, described them as “any word that doesn’t appear in the dictionary, but should”. Sniglets featured as part of the satirical comedy show Not Necessarily the News based on the BBC series Not the Nine O’clock News. Many of the Sniglets are often ‘portmanteau . . . → Read More: Time for a little giggle with some ‘Sniglets’ Have you ever thought that the English language is a bit too….wordy? I mean, it’s certainly more compact than some languages – take German for instance where the average word length far exceeds that of English. (Check out these whoppers: Verbesserungsvorschlagsversammlung, meaning ‘meeting for suggestions for improvement’ and Geschwindigkeitsüberschreitung, the noun for ‘speeding’.) However, having studied foreign . . . → Read More: A rather wordy language |
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