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 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.

The stressed sounds, " Xan ", " du ", " Ku ", " Khan ", contain assonance in their use of the sounds a-u-u-a, have two rhyming syllables with " Xan " and " Khan ", and employ alliteration with the name " Kubla Khan " and the reuse of " d " sounds in " Xanadu " and " did ".

In this respect Newton's use of simple and repetitive metres ( rhythms ) and simple rhyming structures ensured that his audience were better able to remember these hymns.

In many languages, including modern European languages and Arabic, poets use rhyme in set patterns as a structural element for specific poetic forms, such as ballads, sonnets and rhyming couplets.

Some rhyming schemes have become associated with a specific language, culture or period, while other rhyming schemes have achieved use across languages, cultures or time periods.

The types and use of differing rhyming schemes is discussed further in the main article.

As with other poetic techniques, poets use it to suit their own purposes ; for example William Shakespeare often used a rhyming couplet to mark off the end of a scene in a play.

In the 1960s, Mary Barnard reintroduced Sappho to the reading public with a new approach to translation that eschewed the use of rhyming stanzas and traditional forms.

The use of coded languages like verlan is uncommon in English-speaking countries, but similar manners of speaking, such as Cockney rhyming slang, Pig Latin or " backslang ", are used in English-speaking cultures ( see Language game ).

Gargantua dismisses the use of paper as ineffective, rhyming that: " Who his foul tail with paper wipes, Shall at his ballocks leave some chips.

Cockney speakers have a distinctive accent and dialect, and occasionally use rhyming slang.

The editors of the Oxford Shakespeare conclude from the play's incidence of rare vocabulary, use of colloquialisms in verse, pause patterns, and infrequent rhyming that the play was composed in 1596, after Richard II but before Henry IV, Part I.

They were greatly admired by Martin Opitz, who, in translating the poetry of Heinsius, introduced the German public to the use of the rhyming alexandrine.

As well as heavy use of leading British actors, other features were Arthur's constant rhyming slang and other misquoted sayings ( one being " the world is your lobster "), the derelict sites used as locations, and the episode titles, which contained references to films ( e. g. " Gunfight at the O. K.

The company claims that its early adoption of the centralized single-number ordering system, and its subsequent use and heavy promotion of this rhyming phone number, helped the chain to grow and soon dominate the Ontario pizza market.

Part of the entertainment factor can come from the caller's use of " patter " — a set of rhyming words and rhythms that complement the names of the dance steps being called.

A Chastúshka (, ) is a traditional Russian or Ukrainian folk poem which makes use of a simple rhyming scheme to convey humorous or ironic content.

The first use of the rhyming triplet in a hymn was in the " Mirfield Mission Hymnbook " of 1922, and the first use of the phrase " Day by Day " was in the " Songs of Praise, Enlarged Edition " published in 1931.

During his time in the jungle, Pasquale had a relationship with the two emus and his use of the term " Jacobs " ( for Jacobs Crackers: a rhyming slang term for testicles ).

Some writers use furigana to represent slang pronunciations, particularly those that would become hard to understand without the kanji to provide their meaning.

The English use of hentai is more similar to the way the Japanese use the slang term エッチ ( H or ecchi ), which refers to any sexually explicit content or behaviour.

In the English-speaking world, examples include the word ‘ bazinga ’ from the CBS show The Big Bang Theory and, in Japanese, the term moe has come into common use among slang users to mean something extremely cute and appealing.

On the other hand, similar to the use of slang in traditional face-to-face speech or written language, slang on the Internet is often a way of indicating group membership.

The sailors of the Royal Canadian Navy also use the term ' kippers ' as a slang for members of the Royal Navy.

The slang meaning of the term dates back to 1951, when Newsweek magazine reported on its popular use as a synonym for " drip " or " square " in Detroit, Michigan.

It has been suggested by some, such as linguist Mary Bucholtz, that being a nerd may be a state of being " hyperwhite " and rejecting African-American culture and slang that " cool " white children use.

One use of slang is to circumvent social taboos, as mainstream language tends to shy away from evoking certain realities.

Science fiction and fantasy fandom has its own slang or jargon, sometimes called fanspeak ( the term has been in use since at least 1962 ).

* That it derives from the late 19th-century French slang use of the word sabot to describe an unskilled worker, so called due to their wooden clogs or sabots ; sabotage was used to describe the poor quality work which such workers turned out.

This phenomenon is amplified by the use of Indonesian slang, particularly in the cities.

Printed and broadcast mass media are encouraged to use proper Indonesian, although more relaxed popular slang often prevailed.

John Camden Hotten, in his Slang Dictionary of 1859, makes reference to " their use of a peculiar slang language " when describing the costermongers of London's East End.

Individuals using a computer online may adopt or be required to use a form of pseudonym known as a " handle " ( a term deriving from CB slang ), " user name ", " login name ", " avatar ", or, sometimes, " screen name " or " nickname ".

" Its use during that era would have been perceived as a quaint or ironic use of bygone slang: part of the dated 1960s lexicon along with words such as " groovy ".

But a young American has a bath next to his room and I shall ask him if you might use it this once.

In fact, the recent warnings about the use of X-rays have introduced fears and ambiguities of action which now require more detailed understanding, and thus in this instance, science has momentarily aggravated our fears.

As time has passed and science has progressed, the speed of military vehicles has increased, the range of missiles has been extended, the use of target-hunting noses on the projectiles has been adopted, and the range and breadth of message sending has increased.

It may be thought unfortunate that he was called on entirely by accident to perform, if again we may trust the opening of the oratio, for it marks the beginning for us of his use of his peculiar form of witty word play that even in this Latin banter has in it the unmistakable element of viciousness and an almost sadistic delight in verbally tormenting an adversary.

The narrator is an Alsatian serving with the French Army, and he has the same name ( Berger ) that Malraux himself was later to use in the Resistance ; ;

It was a sort of poetic justice that at the time of his own demise a new plot to overthrow the Venezuelan government, reportedly involving the use of Dominican arms by former Venezuelan Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez, has been uncovered and quashed.

A nuclear pacifier of these dimensions -- roughly some six and a half times bigger than anything the United States has triggered experimentally -- would certainly produce a bigger bang, and, just for kicks, Khrushchev might use it to propel the seminar of the house of delegates from St. Louis to the moon, where there wouldn't even be any beer to drink.

And then there is St. Louis county, where the Democratic leadership has shown little appreciation of the need for sound zoning, of the important relationship between proper land use and economic growth.

The New English Bible ( the Old Testament and Apocrypha will be published at a future date ) has not been planned to rival or replace the King James Version, but, as its cover states, it is offered `` simply as the Bible to all those who will use it in reading, teaching, or worship ''.

`` Unless the oyabun has been working on it '', he said, then checked himself and added: `` You can tell Kayabashi-san that the back road is in very good condition and will be quite safe for his party to use ''.

The motor pool has made exceptional progress in automotive management including establishment of cost billing systems, records keeping, analyses of vehicle use, and effecting economies in vehicle operation.

The urban land use study carried out by the planning division staff has consisted of identifying and mapping all urban land uses which are of significance to statewide planning.

There will come a time in a basement shelter when the radiation has decayed enough to allow use of the whole basement.

In the event the rupees set aside for loans under Section 104 ( E ) of the Act are not advanced within six years from the date of this Agreement because the Export-Import Bank of Washington has not approved loans or because proposed loans have not been mutually agreeable to the Export-Import Bank of Washington and the Department of Economic Affairs of the Government of India, the Government of the United States of America may use the rupees for any purpose authorized by Section 104 of the Act.

Accordingly, the Commission has recognized that an optimum allocation pattern for one frequency does not necessarily represent the best pattern for other frequencies, and has assigned different frequencies for use by different classes of stations.

Such additional daytime class 2, assignments are appropriate if optimum use is to be made of these frequencies, and the Commission has over the years made a large number of them.

A new spinning take-up machine has been developed to facilitate the use of our take-up machine in the production of thermoplastic yarns.

No good way to evaluate teaching ability has yet been discovered, although some institutions use inventory sheets for a list of criteria.

As you see, the professor has designed a piece of apparatus that forces the bodybuilder to use a w-i-d-e grip.