Parents Back Then and Nowadays
I called my dad and he has a mild British accent that I don’t really notice, but everybody else does. He says:
- Both pail and bucket
- What’s up, what’s good, how’s it going and how are you
- Soda
And of course, he says… HELLA! (I’ve taught him well)
He also tries to say ratchet and all the slang words that my friends and I use to try and be hip, but to also bother us.
Some slang words that he claimed to have used but is still used back then are:
-Brilliant
-Bog…Toilet
-Fab…Fabulous
In London, many of the people who live in the East End speak with a Cockney accent (which is considered “ghetto”) but here’s some slang that many people from London used back then as well:
-Apples and pears…stairs
-Dog and bone…phone
-Whistle and flute … nice suit
a)Pool/pull sound similar but have a slight difference if you pronounce the vowels correctly.
b)Feel/fill sound similar but the double e has a longer pull on the word, the i cuts it short.
c)Bat/bad/bot all sound different.
d)Caller/collar sound exactly the same to me but if you know the spelling and context you know the difference.
Ooo… these Cockney examples you gave are a special kind of slang called “Cockney rhyming slang”. Very cool. Does your dad actually use rhyming slang, or does he just know about it?
-dsb