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In This Issue - Sept.07
  1. In this Issue
  2. From the editor
  3. Feaured School: Sudio Cambridge
  4. Featured Article: Farmer Gile
From the Editor

Welcome to the new subscribers!

Soap Operas are a wonderful source of slang and colloquial language. Our friend, James Banner, from Hilderstone College discusses the usage of Cokney rhyming slang in the featured article.

Happy Teaching, Monica, Editor.

Featured School

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Featured Article
Farmer Giles
by James Banner

One of the most popular soap operas in the UK today is East Enders, a four-day-a-week series that is based on the everyday lives of people in the East End of London. The other day, one of the characters, a very rough-and-ready old Cockney woman called Mo said “Me Farmer Giles ain’t half giving me gyp!” A little later on she referred again to being in a bad mood because of her “Farmers”.

I had heard “gyp” before - it means trouble or pain. No one is sure of the origin but it is possibly derived in a derogatory way... Read the whole article

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