Cockney Alphabet
Template:Short descriptionThe Cockney Alphabet is a recital of the English alphabet intended to parody the way the alphabet is taught to small working class children. The ostensible humour comes from forming unexpected words and phrases from the names of the various letters of the alphabet, mocking the way people from East London speak. Cockney is a name given to the working class of East London by the middle and upper classes.[1][2]
Clapham and Dwyer version
Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Main other In 1936, the comedy double act Clapham and Dwyer recorded the following version, entitled "A Surrealist Alphabet":
- A for Template:Not a typo (hay for horses)
- B for mutton (beef or mutton)
- C for 'th highlanders (Seaforth Highlanders)
- D for Template:Not a typo (deferential)
- E for Adam (Eve or Adam)
- F for Template:Not a typo (effervescence)
- G for police (chief of police)
- H for respect (age for respect)
- I for Novello (Ivor Novello)
- J for oranges (Jaffa oranges)
- K for Template:Not a typo, (Kay Francis)
- L for leather (Hell for leather)
- M for 'sis (emphasis)
- N for Template:Not a typo (in for a dig, or infra dig.)
- O for the garden wall (over the garden wall)
- P for a penny (pee for a penny)
- Q for a song (cue for a song), or Q for billiards (cue for billiards)
- R for mo' (half a mo')
- S for you (it's for you)
- T for two (tea for two)
- U for films (UFA films)
- V for La France (vive la France)
- W for a bob (double you for a bob?, as in gambling)
- X for breakfast (eggs for breakfast)
- Y for Gawd's sake (why, for God's sake?)
- Z for breezes (zephyr breezes, see West wind)