From Newsgroup: rec.music.folk
On Thursday, January 20, 2000 at 8:00:00rC>AM UTC, paul wrote:
SLHinton17 wrote:
(The RASPBERRY sound is made by extruding the tongue and blowing so as to make
tongue and lips vibrate in a buzzing sound. It's one of the few Cockney Rhyming Slang words that have become imbedded in American slang -- short for
"Raspberry Tart" which rhymes with "lip fart.")
Just any old fart in fact. Is 'berk' (or 'burke') an abusive term in the
USA? That's rhyming slang too- Berkshire (or Berkeley) hunt. Don't know
what it rhymes with though ItrCOs Berkshire hunt which is rhyming slang for a very naughty word to do with lady bits beginning with c. So if you call someone a berk thatrCOs what yourCOre actually calling them.
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Paul Burke
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