As alarmist headlines go, they were pretty puzzling. “Teenagers Aren’t Bobby Moore About Their Ruby Murrays and Their Rosie Lee,” fretted one British tabloid this week. “Is Cockney Rhyming Slang Brown ...

Whether at sea or in port, in peacetime or at war, every moment of a Navy ship’s existence is tracked. The deck log, prepared by the officer of the deck, chronicles where the ship has been, what has ...

Grab your best china plate (a.k.a. mate) and feast your mince pies (otherwise known as your eyes) on these fascinating and delightful terms in this guide to Cockney rhyming slang.

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Whether you're at the supermarket, the park or home, it is always a good time to practise rhyming words. Recognising and producing rhymes is a key skill, which will help unlock important language and ...

Forward reader Susan Hessel writes: “I am reading a book called ‘The Report,’ a novel based on an incident in a London bomb shelter in 1943. In the book, Jews, particularly Jewish refugees, are ...

Would you Adam and Eve it some people don’t have a clue what a Ruby Murray is? Surely they’re having a bubble and getting themselves in the barney rubble or telling porkie pies if they don’t? If you ...

A new visualization shows how Lin-Manuel Miranda’s prose was influenced by everyone from Lauryn Hill to Gilbert & Sullivan. The software itself actually isn’t that complicated, at least the way the ...

Why are people so crazy for Lin-Manuel Miranda's "Hamilton," the hip-hop inspired account of founding father Alexander Hamilton on Broadway that's sold out through August? Among many reasons, those ...

Rhyme, the mainstay of musical ditties and naughty limericks, isn't often taken seriously. New research, however, is showing it has the power to influence the way we think—and may even make dubious ...