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The contrast also justifies the neat allusion to London whose Cockney vowels responsibly transmute the grapes of wrath and enrich our reflections.
Another name for the sixpence was sprat, which probably came from a cross between this word and sprazianna, the Cockney rhyming slang for a sixpence ( tanner ).
(Keats, for example, was ridiculed for writing "Cockney poetry."
Cockney slang for a half-crown coin was tusheroon, tossaroon, or tosheroon , a corruption of another slang term for this coin, madza caroon, a corruption of the Italian mezzo half corona crown.
Missing is a discussion of the word element which some derive from l + m + n; and (pp. 111-12) a reference to Luis d'Antin von Roote, Mots d'Heures: Gousses, Rames (New York 1967) and to Catullus' hilarious poem (no. 84), The Egregious Cockney, persiflaging pre-Augustan Romans' tendency to overaspirate.
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