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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.
Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels is the laborious title of an even more laborious Cockney action movie that some people think is the cat's pajamas crossbred with the bee's knees.
In Cockney English, for example, where initial h is regularly dropped there is a tendency to compensate by supplying initial h where it does not belong.
The contrast also justifies the neat allusion to London whose Cockney vowels responsibly transmute the grapes of wrath and enrich our reflections.
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.
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