THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE:

Devotees of Cockney rhyming slang will be delighted by the news from Britain that a new slang term with an Australian connection is now in the running for best new example of the famous language technique to emerge in 2025.

And the word just announced in London overnight by the David Marcel Car Titty (see footnote) is … drum roll please …Penny.

And the titty is delighted to announce the reason for adding penny to the list of 2025 award hopefuls: unlike a lot of the most famous of rhyming slangs, it can be used as a noun or an adjective.

As in: “How could I have gotten things so penny?”

Or: “I’m sorry, officer. I’ve misread the signs and I’m so, so, sorry for taking that penny turn!”

East Londoners invented rhyming slang to confuse prying ears – mainly the ears of the filth, the ducks and geese, the grass, the bottle and stoppers – as to what they were on about. Here’s one example: If a Cockney declares he’s no iron, he’s saying he’s heterosexual. And why? Because he’s no iron pier. Queer? Get how it’s constructed?

An Australian example would be: “Look at the bundy on that!” Bundy rum! Bum! See how you can alert your china to a nice bundy at a weekend barbecue down at the beach without getting a clip over the ear from the trouble, or hubby for that matter. Pretty simple yet devilishly and sneakily clever, right?

So, what’s the Aussie connection with the emerging use of penny as rhyming slang. It cleverly pays tribute to our very own Foreign Minister (pictured below) and just about every thing she’s ever said about the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza these past few years.

Penny Wong. Wrong!

FOOTNOTE: David Hockney = Cockney; Marcel Marceau/miming = Rhyming; Car prang = Slang; Titty = Committee
 

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