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#24469 03/24/01 08:23 AM
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The one word in common use in my chunk of the country which I know to be derived from rhyming slang is "raspberry," short for "raspberry tart," which was rhymed with ... ummm ...

Hate to burst your bubble, Sparteye, but my dear old Gran taught me this one! She called it "Blowing raspberries"



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>"Blowing raspberries"

We usually blame it on the dogs!



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Maybe fifty years ago "razzberry" or "razz" was common slang for a rude noise made by expelling air from mouth in a way that made lips vibrate. It was intended to be an insult to someone at some distance, such as a referee who had made an unpopular decision.


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around here, that's called a Bronx jeer, or maybe a Bronx cheer -- I've never seen it written and we around here, especially north of Inwood, are noted for our elocution or as some would say, we are noted for our poor elocution.


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"Dead Horse = Tomato Sauce"

Who thinks this "rhymes"?



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"Dead Horse = Tomato Sauce"
Who thinks this "rhymes"?


You remember "Bonanza?" I think we can take a clue from, "Ben Cartwright = Shite" Ben's huge son's name was Hoss, or Hawss rhymes with "sauce"


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I got that clue... but does anyone really pronounce it that way... "dialectally speaking"?


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If they didn't, it couldn't have come about.


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Laboring at the obvious (he says hoping to stay ahead in total posts and some semblance of spect) ...whom, 'prey' tell...


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Why, them's that said it in the first place, of course! (or, as Briar Rabbit said to Briar Fox, "That's the way it goes in this world, briar fox, somes goes up and somes goes down!)


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