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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
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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).
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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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