A guy walks into a doctor’s office and says, “Doc, wiv dis Billy Ray Cyrus, I can’t stop Wallace and Gromiting and I ‘ave a ‘orrible on and off. Do you ‘ave any Thomas Edison what won’t hurt me ...

For the next three months a cluster of East London ATMs will be offering customers the chance to withdraw cash using written prompts in Cockney rhyming slang. It works by replacing a word with a short ...

How did we get the phrase “use your loaf”, meaning “use your head”? Well, it dates to the late-19th century, and is drawn from Cockney rhyming slang; in which head, is “loaf of bread”. Cockney vendors ...

Compared to what the U.K. receives by way of American pop culture, the U.S. gets a fairly limited view of what British folk are actually like. As far as movies and TV go, the three most common ...

A place where everyone is looking ahead eagerly, we must presume - to the opening of the Olympics this summer. NPR's London-based correspondent, Philip Reeves, sends us an occasional letter about the ...

Americans and Britons share the same language, yet transatlantic visitors to the London Olympics might struggle to understand what's going on. The games are in East London, home of rhyming slang, a ...