{"id":354,"date":"2009-08-25T08:30:32","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T08:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=354"},"modified":"2009-08-24T21:38:13","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T21:38:13","slug":"give-this-a-butchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/25\/give-this-a-butchers\/","title":{"rendered":"Give this a butcher&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Cockney-sign-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Cockney sign\" title=\"Cockney sign\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-355\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Cockney-sign-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Cockney-sign.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Just a couple of posts ago I was talking about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/20\/the-rosetta-project\/\">Rosetta Project<\/a>, which aims to help preserve and promote languages to maintain diversity.<\/p>\n<p>Well, how about this for diversity? An enterprising ATM operator company is giving people the option to conduct their transactions\u2026 in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk\/cockney_rhyming_slang \">Cockney rhyming slang<\/a>. Can you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk\/slang\/adam_and_eve \">Adam and Eve<\/a> it?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ron Delnevo, managing director of Bank Machine, said: &#8220;We wanted to introduce something fun and of local interest to our London machines.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whilst we expect some residents will visit the machine to just have a &#8216;butcher&#8217;s&#8217; (look), most will be genuinely pleased as this is the first time a financial services provider will have recognised the Cockney language in such a manner.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <em>(Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/21\/20090824\/tuk-cash-machine-offers-cockney-slang-6323e80.html\">Yahoo News<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The option is sadly only available at five ATMs in East London for just three months \u2013 we can only hope that it catches on. If you can\u2019t get to London, test your Cockney knowledge <a href=\" http:\/\/www.tiscali.co.uk\/lifestyle\/quiz\/cockney_slang.html \">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a couple of posts ago I was talking about the Rosetta Project, which aims to help preserve and promote languages to maintain diversity. Well, how about this for diversity? An enterprising ATM operator company is giving people the option to conduct their transactions\u2026 in Cockney rhyming slang. Can you Adam and Eve it? Ron [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,3,57,16],"tags":[194,195,51,196],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-english","category-slang","category-technology","tag-atm","tag-cockney","tag-language","tag-london"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}