Re: Conlang Article in the LA Times

On Sun, 26 Aug 2007, Michael Poxon wrote:
> That's a term rather similar to "Berk" - which many folks think is
> based on a person named "Burke", but it too is rhyming slang,
> for "Berkeley Hunt". I won't undignify the list with the word it
> rhymes with! Cocknet rhyming slang was especially prevalent in the
> first half of C20, but is still alive and kicking, witness such
> coinages as " 'e's a right merchant" (Merchant Banker = w***er) or,
> more
> recently but along the same lines, " e's 'avin' a Sherman" (Sherman
> Tank...) Mike.
>
It was only a few years ago that I was introduced to the collective noun
for bankers: a wunch.

- andrew.