Six may be referred to as " Jimmie Hicks " or " Jimmie Hicks from the sticks ", examples of rhyming slang.

This is both an example of rhyming slang and of a sexual double entendre.

Rhyming slang is a form of phrase construction in the English language and is especially prevalent in dialectal English from the East End of London ; hence the alternative name, Cockney rhyming slang ( or CRS ).

The use of rhyming slang has spread beyond the purely dialectal and some examples are to be found in the mainstream British English lexicon and internationally, although many users may be unaware of the origin of those words.

According to Partridge ( 1972: 12 ), it dates from around 1840 and arose in the East End of London, however John Camden Hotten in his 1859 Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant and Vulgar Words states that ( English ) rhyming slang originated " about twelve or fifteen years ago " ( i. e. in the 1840s ) with ' chaunters ' and ' patterers ' in the Seven Dials area of London.

It remains a matter of speculation whether rhyming slang was a linguistic accident, a game, or a cryptolect developed intentionally to confuse non-locals.

At any point in history, in any location, rhyming slang can be seen to incorporate words and phrases that are relevant at that particular time and place.

By the mid-20th century many rhyming slang expressions used the names of contemporary personalities, especially actors and performers: for example " Gregory Peck " meaning " neck " and also " cheque "; " Ruby Murray " meaning " curry "; " Alans ", meaning " knickers " from Alan Whicker ; " Max Miller " meaning " pillow " when pronounced / ˈpilə / and " Henry Halls ".

This usage can be seen as either an abuse of history, or as a good example of the ever-changing nature of rhyming slang.

Outside England, rhyming slang is used in many English-speaking countries.

In Australian slang the term for an English person is " pommy ", which has been proposed as a rhyme on " pomegranate " rhyming with " immigrant ".

In London rhyming slang is continually evolving, and new phrases are introduced all the time.

" Taking the Mick " or " taking the Mickey " is thought to be a rhyming slang form of " taking the piss ", where " Mick " came from " Mickey Bliss ".

In December 2004 Joe Pasquale, winner of the fourth series of ITV's I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here !, became well known for his frequent use of the term " Jacobs ", for Jacob's Crackers, a rhyming slang term for knackers i. e. testicles.

In Britain rhyming slang had a resurgence of popular interest beginning in the 1970s resulting from its use in a number of London-based television programmes such as Steptoe and Son, Mind Your Language, The Sweeney ( the title of which is itself rhyming slang —" Sweeney Todd " for " Flying Squad ", a rapid response unit of London ’ s Metropolitan Police ), Minder, Citizen Smith, Only Fools and Horses, and EastEnders.

In The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, a comic twist was added to rhyming slang by way of spurious and fabricated examples which a young man had laboriously to explain to his father ( e. g. ' dustbins ' meaning ' children ', as in ' dustbin lids ' = ' kids '; ' Teds ' being ' Ted Heath ' and thus ' teeth '; and even ' Chitty Chitty ' being ' Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ', and thus ' rhyming slang '...).

In modern literature, Cockney rhyming slang is used frequently in the novels and short stories of Kim Newman, for instance in the short story collections " The Man from the Diogenes Club " ( 2006 ) and " Secret Files of the Diogenes Club " ( 2007 ), where it is explained at the end of each book.

In popular music, London-based artists such as Audio Bullys and Chas & Dave ( and others from elsewhere in the UK, such as The Streets, who are from Birmingham ) frequently use rhyming slang in their songs.

From 1978 to 1981 the name was changed to the Central Robbery Squad, but still known as the Flying Squad, they are often referred to by the nicknames the " Heavy Mob " or " the Sweeney ", which is a shortened version of the rhyming slang, Sweeney Todd.

The programme's title derives from Sweeney Todd, which is Cockney rhyming slang for " Flying Squad ".

In the rhyming catechism this doctrine is worded thus: `` In Adam's fall We sin-ned all ''.

However, there is considerable variation on this pattern in almost every respect, including length, number of lines and rhyming scheme, making the strict definition of a ballad extremely difficult.

The most frequently cited example — although it is almost never employed by current users — involves the replacement of " stairs " with the rhyming phrase " apples and pears ".

In Australia and South Africa, the colloquial term " China " is derived from " mate " rhyming with " China plate " ( the identical form, heard in expressions like " me old China " is also a long-established Cockney idiom ).

In present day feature films rhyming slang is often used to lend authenticity to an East End setting.

Examples include Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels ( 1998 ) ( wherein the slang is translated via subtitles in one scene ); The Limey ( 1999 ); Sexy Beast ( 2000 ); Snatch ( 2000 ); Ocean's Eleven ( 2001 ); and Austin Powers in Goldmember ( 2002 ); It's All Gone Pete Tong ( 2004 ), after BBC radio disc jockey Pete Tong whose name is used in this context as rhyming slang for " wrong "; Green Street Hooligans ( 2005 ).

Partick Thistle are known as the " Harry Rags ", which is taken from the rhyming slang of their ' official ' nickname " the jags ".

Heart of Midlothian are known as the " Jambos ", which comes from " Jam Tarts " which is the rhyming slang for " Hearts " which is the common abbreviation of the Clubs name.

* Cobblers is short for " cobbler's awls " which is a rhyming slang for ' balls ' ( testicles )

The complexity of a language's orthography or spelling rhyming words formally, its orthographic depth – has a direct impact on how difficult it is to learn to read that language.

The implication in these poetic manuals was that rhyming was a form or branch of rhetoric.

The phrase " egg and spoon " features in The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English ; its use, along with the idiom good egg with which it is sometimes confused, is frowned upon by the Metropolitan Police Service on the grounds of it being derogatory and rhyming slang for " coon ".

There are other types of dictionaries that don't fit neatly in the above distinction, for instance bilingual ( translation ) dictionaries, dictionaries of synonyms ( thesauri ), or rhyming dictionaries.

At later ages symptoms can include a difficulty identifying or generating rhyming words, or counting syllables in words ( phonological awareness ), a difficulty segmenting words into individual sounds, or blending sounds to make words, a difficulty with word retrieval or naming problems, commonly very poor spelling which has been called dysorthographia ( orthographic coding ), and tendencies to omit or add letters or words when writing and reading are considered classic signs.

The present word has alternate spellings ( kludge and kluge ) and pronunciations ( and, rhyming with fudge and stooge respectively ), and several proposed etymologies.

) Gell-Mann, however, wanted to pronounce the word with ( ô ) not ( ä ), as Joyce seemed to indicate by rhyming words in the vicinity such as Mark.

Rapping ( also known as emceeing, MCing, spitting ( bars ), or rhyming ) refers to " spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics ".

" ( A rhyming couplet in the original German: " Den Sozialismus in seinem Lauf hält weder Ochs noch Esel auf ", Berlin, 7 October 1989 ), one of Honecker's favorite adages, originally coined by August Bebel.

Nevertheless, the glottal stop, double negatives, and the vocalization of the dark L ( and other features of Cockney speech ), along with some rhyming slang terms are still in common usage.

In addition to his appearance in Through the Looking-Glass, as a character Humpty Dumpty has been used in a large range of literary works, including L. Frank Baum's Mother Goose in Prose ( 1901 ), where the rhyming riddle is devised by the daughter of the king, having witnessed Humpty's " death " and her father's soldiers ' efforts to save him.

Polari is a mixture of Romance ( Italian or Mediterranean Lingua Franca ), London slang, backslang, rhyming slang, sailor slang, and thieves ' cant.

Although she sometimes chose to write poems that do not rhyme ( especially in her later period ), she always respected questions of rhythm ; moreover, in her " antique " works ( e. g., the set of love poems The Sonnets of Therese du Meun, a false document about the love-longings of a married French noblewoman for a young tutor ), Goldberg adopted complex rhyming schemes.

In rhyming couplets ( circa 1928 ), in chapter 3, " The Lay of Leithian ".

It is not usually considered offensive when pronounced ( rhyming with deed ), the way Yiddish speakers say it, though some may deem the word offensive nonetheless.

When pronounced ( rhyming with did ), it can generally be perceived as a pejorative — and is used as a derogatory epithet by antisemites.

Among the rhyming weavers were James Campbell ( 1758 – 1818 ), James Orr ( 1770 – 1816 ), Thomas Beggs ( 1749 – 1847 ), David Herbison ( 1800 – 1880 ), Hugh Porter ( 1780 – 1839 ) and Andrew McKenzie ( 1780 – 1839 ).