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Cockney Alphabet, the Glossary

The Cockney Alphabet is a recital of the English alphabet intended to parody the way the alphabet is taught to small working class children.^[1]

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Adam and Eve

Adam and Eve, according to the creation myth of the Abrahamic religions, were the first man and woman.

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Alfa Romeo

Alfa Romeo Automobiles S.p.A. is an Italian luxury carmaker known for its sports-oriented vehicles, strong auto racing heritage, and iconic design.

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Arthur Askey

Arthur Bowden Askey, (6 June 1900 – 16 November 1982) was an English comedian and actor.

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Arthur Lowe

Arthur Lowe (22 September 1915 – 15 April 1982) was an English actor.

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Arthur Ernest Mullard (né Mullord; 19 September 1910His obituary in The Times gives his date of birth as 10 November 1910 but conflicts with the birthdate given in his death registration. His year of birth appears as 1908, 1910, 1912 and 1913 in various sources. However online records at show that the birth of an Arthur E Mullord was registered in Islington in October–December 1910, which is probably him.

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Ava Gardner

Ava Lavinia Gardner (December 24, 1922 – January 25, 1990) was an American actress.

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Clapham and Dwyer

Clapham and Dwyer were a British comedy duo popular in the 1920s and 1930s, comprising Charlie Clapham (William Charles Conrad Clapham; 6 January 1894–27 July 1959) and Bill Dwyer (William Henry Dwyer; 7 May 1887–11 January 1943).

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Cockney

Cockney is a dialect of the English language, mainly spoken in London and its environs, particularly by Londoners with working-class and lower middle-class roots.

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Columbia Graphophone Company

Columbia Graphophone Co.

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Comedy

Comedy is a genre of fiction that consists of discourses or works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. The term originated in ancient Greece: In Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by political satire performed by comic poets in theaters. Cockney Alphabet and comedy are Humour.

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Cue stick

A cue stick (or simply cue, more specifically billiards cue, pool cue, or snooker cue) is an item of sporting equipment essential to the games of pool, snooker and carom billiards.

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Cypriot wine

The Cypriot wine industry ranks 50th in the world in terms of total production quantity (10,302 tonnes), and much higher on a per-capita basis.

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Differential (mechanical device)

A differential is a gear train with three drive shafts that has the property that the rotational speed of one shaft is the average of the speeds of the others.

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Double act

A double act (also known as a comedy duo) is a form of comedy originating in the British music hall tradition, and American vaudeville, in which two comedians perform together as a single act, often highlighting differences in their characters' personalities.

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Emphysema

Emphysema is any air-filled enlargement in the body's tissues.

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Envelope

An envelope is a common packaging item, usually made of thin, flat material.

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Enver Hoxha

Enver Hoxha (16 October 190811 April 1985) was an Albanian communist politician who was the ruler of Albania from 1944 until his death in 1985.

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Enver Pasha

İsmail Enver (اسماعیل انور پاشا; İsmail Enver Paşa; 23 November 1881 – 4 August 1922), better known as Enver Pasha, was an Ottoman military officer, revolutionary, and convicted war criminal who was a part of the dictatorial triumvirate known as the "Three Pashas" (along with Talaat Pasha and Cemal Pasha) in the Ottoman Empire.

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Esther Rantzen

Dame Esther Louise Rantzen (born 22 June 1940) is an English journalist and television presenter, who presented the BBC television series That's Life! for 21 years, from 1973 until 1994.

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Esther Williams

Esther Jane Williams (August 8, 1921 – June 6, 2013) was an American competitive swimmer and actress.

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Euphemism

A euphemism is an innocuous word or expression used in place of one that is deemed offensive or suggests something unpleasant.

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Eva Gabor

Eva Gabor (February 11, 1919 – July 4, 1995) was a Hungarian-American actress and socialite.

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Eva Le Gallienne

Eva Le Gallienne (January 11, 1899 – June 3, 1991) was a British-born American stage actress, producer, director, translator, and author.

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Eva Perón

María Eva Duarte de Perón (7 May 1919 – 26 July 1952), better known as just Eva Perón or by the nickname Evita, was an Argentine politician, activist, actress, and philanthropist who served as First Lady of Argentina from June 1946 until her death in July 1952, as the wife of Argentine President Juan Perón (1895–1974).

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Evening Standard

The Evening Standard, formerly The Standard (1827–1904), is a long-established newspaper, since 2009 a local free newspaper in tabloid format, with a website on the Internet, published in London, England.

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Ford Zephyr

The Ford Zephyr is an executive car manufactured by Ford of Britain from 1950 until 1972.

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Hever Castle

Hever Castle is located in the village of Hever, Kent, near Edenbridge, south-east of London, England.

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Ivor Novello

Ivor Novello (born David Ivor Davies; 15 January 1893 – 6 March 1951) was a Welsh actor, dramatist, singer and composer who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the first half of the 20th century.

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Ivor the Engine

Ivor the Engine is a British cutout animation television series created by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin's Smallfilms company.

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Jaffa orange

The Jaffa orange also known as Shamouti orange (برتقال شموطي), is an orange variety with few seeds and a tough skin that makes it particularly suitable for export.

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Kay Francis

Kay Francis (born Katharine Edwina Gibbs; January 13, 1905 – August 26, 1968) was an American stage and film actress.

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Kiefer Sutherland

Kiefer William Frederick Dempsey George Rufus Sutherland (born 21 December 1966) is a Canadian actor and musician.

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Seaforth Highlanders

The Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, the Duke of Albany's) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, mainly associated with large areas of the northern Highlands of Scotland.

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Shilling

The shilling is a historical coin, and the name of a unit of modern currencies formerly used in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, other British Commonwealth countries and Ireland, where they were generally equivalent to 12 pence or one-twentieth of a pound before being phased out during the 1960s and 1970s.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockney_Alphabet

Also known as A for 'orses, A for orses, A is for 'orses, Surrealist alphabet.

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