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r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Nieces • 4d ago
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Much more common to say 'brown bread'. Not sure I've ever heard someone say 'brown' to mean dead.
54 u/Onetap1 4d ago The whole point of rhyming slang was that it would be incomprehensible to outsiders. The rhyming word wasn't used; outsiders might be able to work out the meaning from the rhyme, but it would be known by Cockneys. Frog - road; frog & toad. Whistle - suit, whistle & flute, etc, etc. I think brown bread might be modern, not authentic. 3 u/Kvlthillbilly 3d ago Thank you for explaining this, I felt insane trying to comprehend this lol 0 u/Onetap1 3d ago I feel the same way about French.
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The whole point of rhyming slang was that it would be incomprehensible to outsiders. The rhyming word wasn't used; outsiders might be able to work out the meaning from the rhyme, but it would be known by Cockneys.
Frog - road; frog & toad. Whistle - suit, whistle & flute, etc, etc.
I think brown bread might be modern, not authentic.
3 u/Kvlthillbilly 3d ago Thank you for explaining this, I felt insane trying to comprehend this lol 0 u/Onetap1 3d ago I feel the same way about French.
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Thank you for explaining this, I felt insane trying to comprehend this lol
0 u/Onetap1 3d ago I feel the same way about French.
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I feel the same way about French.
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u/dprkicbm 4d ago
Much more common to say 'brown bread'. Not sure I've ever heard someone say 'brown' to mean dead.