Hello everybody,
This week I’ve been quite busy and most of it I was out of my Barcelona home. I did nothing related to English or at least related to our English class. Please, Felicity don’t be upset because by now you know how much I like English and how much I enjoy your course (don’t you hear some violins in the background?).
Now, justa few minutes before our May, 31st class I’m writing this post. I’ll bring a hard copy to the class because it is physically impossible for you to read it on internet.
Going to the cockney rhyming I must confess that I’m not yet sure on how it works. My question is the following. Should one or the two words on the left have some sort of relation (meaning) with the ‘single’ one (on the right)? Or the two words might be whatever you want and the only ‘condition’ is that when you say both together the ending phoneme must rhyme with the ending phoneme of the word on the right?
I’ll put my question in another way: the relation between ‘left’ and right’ is somewhat conceptual or it is simply phonetic?
outside ÷ easy = busy
awake ÷ frog = blog
brave ÷ peak = speak
below ÷ around = underground
chemistry ÷ dove = love
twelve ÷ wealth = health
And here’s another one which I feel is closer to the way we use rhyming than the way cockney does.
no homework ÷ no writing = no exercising
End of the post.
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Hello,
ReplyDeleteSorry I didn't reply to this one sooner, but Montse did a pretty good job of finding explanations I think...
Anyway, the first bit has to be something. For example 'apples and pears' (stairs) are a pair of fruit, so you couldn't say 'school and pears'. Another example is 'Bristol Cities' (titties) - Bristol City is the name of a football team.
So the words are like this, maybe the name of a famous person, or a noun that comprises two words (e.g. 'pork pies' (lies)), or two words that go together in the same semantic field.
So, I hope this helps. If not, use your loaf a bit more!
Felicity