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Cockney Rimming Slang
The church was destroyed during the Blitz as were the bells but now it has 12 bells and they were hung in 1961 as part of the repair program after the war. Slang is often given a very hard time but it's the sort of I'd say unofficial you know sort of informal vernacular that for you know people tend to see a sort of improper English. The countdown dictionary includes lots of slang precisely because it's designed as a code so dictionaries of slang have existed almost since all the dictionary in fact they want some of the first dictionaries ever to be compiled there was a lovely definition about slang by one linguist who said slang is the language that spits on its hands rolls
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