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« on: 18 July, 2008, 12:41:12 PM » |
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I understand that apart from "Rhyming Slang", East Enders had another secret language, pronouncing words backwards. I came across this in the early 60's prior to my joining the Army. At the factory where I worked, from time to time I was called a strange sounding word by an older member of the workforce. I subsequently discovered that this was his way of calling me an obscenity without my knowing. When I was told this by another elderly work mate, I challenged the perpetrator about this insult. To cut a long story short, he taught me a whole string of these words and how to "pronounce" them. Not all words were said backwards, but sometime just jumbled up. Although I never learnt enough to hold a conversation using this method, I aquired a very useful vocabulary, which came in very handy during my Army days!
Has anyone else come across this "language" and people using it in everyday speech?
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Stan Dyson
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« Reply #1 on: 18 July, 2008, 04:01:31 PM » |
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Yes, at 1950's SWHT school us kids all had our own secret language. It's surprising how quickly we became skilled in both using and understanding it. It simply involved taking the first letter of each word and adding it to the end of the word with an 'a' immediarely after it. So, 'Waht is the time?' became Ahtwa sia heta imeta? & Come over here, became Omeca veroa ereha. - Stan
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« Reply #2 on: 19 July, 2008, 07:40:38 AM » |
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Alanf.
On I tn'evah, I bet you all sounded like a Two Ronnies Sketch .
All the best DE oh I mean ED
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« Reply #3 on: 19 July, 2008, 11:15:54 AM » |
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Stan, and Alan. When I learnt A slang, the method you described, Stan, we had a whale of a time. In some words, such as A, "do you have "a" watch?" we would add a D. Thus, "oda ouya aveha ada atchwa. Many uninitiated people that we approached would reply, 'Can't understand yer mate,' walking off complaining about "bleeding foreigner's." Incidentally, you probably do know this, the definition of Slang is, secret language. bill Ewing.
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Stan Dyson
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« Reply #4 on: 19 July, 2008, 04:40:18 PM » |
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 Ellwa illBa, Tisa icena ota nowka hatta Ida maa otna heta nlyoa ersonpa howa pokesa ada ecretsa anguagela. Howa eededna sperantoEa! - Stan
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« Reply #5 on: 20 July, 2008, 09:01:32 AM » |
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Stan it was great fun, it will be interesting to see how many others can read your message. The other one was never going to catch on anywhere, it was worse than gobbledygook. Bill Ewing.
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Born in custom house canning town, bombed out twice, moved to denmark street where i went to denmark street school.
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« Reply #6 on: 21 July, 2008, 10:55:10 AM » |
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Ellwa illBa, Tisa icena ota nowka hatta Ida maa otna heta nlyoa ersonpa howa pokesa ada ecretsa anguagela. Howa eededna sperantoEa! - Stan [/qu ote] Stan This secret Language is what when we were Kids is just ordinary back slang ,oday ouyay owkn ay atwh Iay eanmay,Go good ,Ken |
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« Reply #7 on: 22 July, 2008, 09:50:37 AM » |
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We used to call this 'backslang'we even backslanged our names and for years I was known as Eneri Nosirrah!
Gulp!
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« Reply #8 on: 31 July, 2008, 10:03:22 AM » |
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I had a friend who used to work in a butchers, he used backslang regularly......................kcab gnals!!! as he used to say. I also wondered like some about a supposed profanity uttered by my gran, it took me a while to grasp its meaning!. Terry  |
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Hello, my name is Terry, and i am custom house born and bred.
Still living in Prince Regent Lane
Age 48
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« Reply #9 on: 31 July, 2008, 06:32:30 PM » |
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When we spoke it in Plaistow we had a different method.
The word 'backslang' became 'ackslangbay' ie the first letter was put at the back and 'ay' added. This was done for most words, with a few exceptions.
Words that began with two letters eg 'church', 'short', 'phone' would have the first 2 letters put at the back and 'ay' added again. They therefore became 'urchchay', 'ortshay' and onephay.
Using this method my name was Ilipphay Endellkay.
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