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Posted By: tsuwm scooby - 08/06/05 04:56 PM
Cockney rhyming slang gets Americanized?

"You'd no idea he was shifting quantities like this?"
"Not a scooby."

[Ian Rankin, Resurrection Men]

Scooby Doo <> clue

Posted By: Father Steve Re: scooby - 08/06/05 05:40 PM
V: From Cockney Rhyming Slang and all other such perversions of the English language ...
R: Good Lord, deliver us.

~From the Litany of Supplications for the Preservation of the Queen's English (2005).


Posted By: belligerentyouth Re: scooby - 08/07/05 08:19 AM
There is great tradition of using iconic American celebrities and characters in cockney; sumfink wrong wiv yer Britney's, mate? It's Mariah. It's not a new development either. See:
Chevy Chase - face
Clark Gable - table
Mickey Mouse - house

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