Monday, March 27, 2006

Blunt Provides Welcome Addition to Cockney Rhyming Slang

As a London-based organisation, E.R. enjoys keeping apace with the language of local urban life. Which is why it welcomed news that 70s Formula One race-ace (and reknowned tight-arse)James Hunt has finally been replaced in local rhyming slang with number-one popster James Blunt.
The racing driver tradition had been maintained with the use of ''Ayrton'' for a ten-pound note (as in Senna - Tenner), but Hunt's fame is out of date, and younger casual users of slang were starting to revert to the vulgar version.
E.R. has embraced use of the new phrase, as in the following example:
''That James Blunt is a James Blunt, isn't he?''

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