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<p>[QUOTE="the blacksmith, post: 9571089, member: 20148"]Being a Londoner and having worked in London's famous Covent Garden market, I got to learn and use a lot of rhyming slang, and I have never neard of a 'deep sea diver'! It was always to my knowledge known as a 'lady', or a 'Lady Godiva'. Some simply refer to it as a 'bluey'.</p><p>A few years back it was considered cool to use rhyming slang, and a lot of it was simply made up by folks who had absolutely no idea.</p><p>I still use a lot of rhyming slang, and never refer to the telephone as anything other than the 'dog' = 'Dog & bone'.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="the blacksmith, post: 9571089, member: 20148"]Being a Londoner and having worked in London's famous Covent Garden market, I got to learn and use a lot of rhyming slang, and I have never neard of a 'deep sea diver'! It was always to my knowledge known as a 'lady', or a 'Lady Godiva'. Some simply refer to it as a 'bluey'. A few years back it was considered cool to use rhyming slang, and a lot of it was simply made up by folks who had absolutely no idea. I still use a lot of rhyming slang, and never refer to the telephone as anything other than the 'dog' = 'Dog & bone'.[/QUOTE]
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