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The Brussels Post, 1960-11-10, Page 5ti -.^"Xas44641A 4111.s., "Dictionary of It-liming which includes the 'rhymes ale ready -cited and adds many More, says a writer in the Chriatiast Science Monitor, For instance, "mince Pie" le eye, "raspberry tart" is heart,/ "Chevy Chase" (not a place lust outside Washington, D.C., buil probably derived from the title of an old English ballad or hunt. ing cry), is,face, "Barnet (Fair)* is hair) and "I suppose" is nose, The Cockneys sthemselves are those Londoners born white* earshot of the bells of St. Mary. le-Sow Church -- not to be cones fused with the •bells of Bt Clem- ents which Say Pranges-and-lerao ens, The term "Cockney" itselt apparently is derived from "cock's eggs," a forthright old term for fools. Country folk long ago regarded .town or city-brell people, ignorant of c -.1ntrs, ways, as fools or easily fooled, and -therefore called, them Coc-o neys, It was only later that * reversal occured and the coins. try man became a bumpkin I* the city slicker. The Cockneys not only enae ploy their 'rhyming 'slang as It 'bit 'of one upmanship, but their actual 'pronuciation is unique, They avoid the "th" diphtho • ng, changing it, to 'T' or '"V" and: sPrinkling in extra "r's" for good. measure, Thus "things" become* clings," father and mother be- come afarver" and "relliVVer** and water and cottage become "wa-er" and "co-age." Other variants are "dyly" for daily an4 "abaht" for about, "Bullock', horn" is Cockney slang fot "pawn" •because the word is pro. nounced "pawrn." If you have paid -careful it. tention, you should have ht trouble in deciphering 'the 180 sonnet quoted by Mr. Franklyiet "Now a tear-drop fell from the girl's, mince-pie, "And her, raspberry tart was torn "With 'anguish for she '1444iiik empty sky, "And she'd nothing to, bulloekt horn. • "But she cooled each nil** with a little -scent • 'And her Barnet arranged art& grate; "And then down the apples el& pears she went "With a sorrowful Chevy Chase . . " But I defy you to pronounce II! like a Cockney would. Unless, 4 course, you're a Cockney. The less one has to do, the lett time one finds to do it in. — Lord Chesterfield. 1 SAILORS—Senator and Mrs. John F. Kennedy enjoy sail In pemocratic ,presidentiat nominee's 32-fobt sailboat at Hyannis. Port, Mass., prior to the opening -bell of his White House Plea To Husband — "Take Second' Wife" . _• GARIBALDI -- sour-cent stamp honors the Italicin liberator Garibaldi. Port „ef the_ 'Thom. pion of Liberty' series, 10 will go on sole -In Washington Nov. 7. They Fly Ants Or flephants One, , of the World's, busiest airline terminals today is Hol- land's bustling Schiphol where, forty years ago the now famous loyal Dutch airline, KLM, was 'launched. SiX men and one girl serviced the airport in those pioneer ,days, With a. staff over 16,000, it still uses the same base, sited thirteen feet below sea level, but now instead of .putting the occa- sional frail -A,iretait into the sky for „fine ....weather service, only, a fleet of ninety-five machines flies -every day an equivalent of - five times round the earth's cir— , curnference, linking 105 cities in lit countries. • This vast undertaking, which flies over 1,000,000 passengers , each year, sprang from the brain -of astute -Dutch Air Force Lieu- Aenant, Albert Plesman. • it's pretty hard not to get your- self worked up over something like this, A litterbug out litter- ing is one thing, but a father who is bringing up a whole family Of them, and devoting A pleasant afternoon to inculcating the clexterities, Is worse, She said, "I will gladly go to court and testify against that ratkng--,..e.„ • Then she; 4cgaii Pacct,tmulating specific evidence, She made a note, for instance, that pop bottle number four landed by utility 'pole No, 224, near a hen- 'house, a hundred yards beyond 'a town-line sign, She -set down 'a description of the man and woman, as to the color of their clothes, It was a light blue sedan, with -cream trim, And the steam pressure' mounted. ' There isn't much you can do, really, You can't stop the fellow yourself, for traffic can be con- trolled only by a uniformed offi- cer. You can't find an officer, either, In Maine, as in most places, the police departments are operated so the officers are always somewhere else. ,On the return trip the next day we saw five policemen on that same -route, but when we wanted one they were tinfindable. We were agreed, though, that -if we found one we would take the time to sign a complaint and appear in 'court. By the time this litterbug had tossed Out the last sodY- . bottle we felt no law could be extreme enough' to suit his parti- cular needs,. Not so much what he was doing, but his example to the youngsters. We did, eventually, find a po- liceman, two days later, and we asked him to look 'up the regis- tration number and tell 'us who' 'the 'fellow is, I thought 'we might 'telephone him, o' drop around some day, and tell him how we, had f011owed him •and what we had 'seen him do, and what weethought of it. It' might mend his ways for him full as much as being brought in. But a couple of weeks have gene by, and We haven't heard anything. Perhaps we, think litterbugging 'is-more serious than others do: -In the meantime we have been stopped twice at night, by alert end.' courteous state policenien who ask to see tip' licenses and want, us to tip our headlight' beame., We tip them, and show • otfr licenses,,and admire the effi- ciency of the department. So, I. think our antilitter 'law isn't -working. There is _ some • point on 'which. it 'falls down.'- It's a •little discouraging. to :realize , we , have -people, in our great - -human family who will drive out to see the beauties of nature and , -strew ,debris as they go. -By John , Gould in. The Christian Science Monitor. How To Speak The cockney Language Visitors to London sooner or later begin to wonder if they actually speak or understand the English language. Only gradual., ly does a foreign ear become at- tuned to some Of the strange, sounds emitted by persons here who are supremely confident they are speaking if not the King's EnSliahl at least English, It is not so much the Oxford accent, although -that also can be quite unintelligible to some. The greatest same-language barrier and comprehension test to •con- front the visitor is usually in the chitchat of taxi drivers, bus con,. duetors, news vendors, or small- shop proprietors. Over the years, I have become familiar with the "Come on, Luv," "Alleles," "Dearie," or "Guy" interjections of conduct- ors •and conductresses. But only recently a London musical, ap- propriately entitled "rings Ain't Wot They Used T' Be,'" dealing with 'Soho life, and I 'frankly un- clersteed only about half of what was 'said. By comparison, Shaw's Eliza Doolittle, of "Pygmalion" and "My Fair Lady" fame, al- ready "spoke with alrhost flay,- less diction when Professor Hig- gins first entountered her eutside Covent Garden. What greatly relieved me at the end of the first act of "Pings" (Things), therefore, was'the very English gentleman behind me who exploded to '-his partner, "You know, I 'scarcely under- stood a word they were saying." What is -especially hard /or the newcomer to grasp is Cockney rhyming slang. The Cockneys don't say "Use your head." They say "Use your loaf" — from loaf of bread, which rhymes with head. If you do not know the sys- tem, you really are lost, you see. Here are some other examples: 'Stairs are "apples and pears;" Money is "bees and honey." A hat it a "titter" -- 'rhyming with "tit for tat." A cup of tea can be (aside from "char") a cep of 'you and me" or even a' 'clip 'of Ro'sy," for Rosy Lee. A pocket is a "sky," for skyrocket Naturally Father's chair is a "lion's lair." A walk is a"ball 'chalk." -A pot is a 'Waiter Scott." A'stool is an "April foot,'" and a table is "Cain and Abet" It takes a quick wit I0ertah4- faeture and speak this special patoisand keen*ear indeed to decipher it rapidly enough to re- ply. Howe*, London-born Jul- ian 'Franklyn hai heen interested enough in this legendary tock- ney talk to draw up a fascinating On The Trail Of A Litterbug! A great truth was Krung home -to me, as Win Mitchell used to. say, when I watched a littlerbUg 'operate the other day. The truth Would be that a law isn't much good sometimes, We've got a state law intended to "Keep Maine Clean and Green", end /or about 80 miles we watched a man break that law repeatedly. What can, you do? 'Twas a lovely day, and the tme for an annual pilgrimage - we make, We pack some goodies and go up back to a remoter spot where a college chum, has his summer place. They know we're miming every year on this parti- miler day, just as we know they'll, return the call on A cer- *tain day in November. This has 'been going on now for some time as our own answer to the, Junetime commencement, We found that commencement was getting to be mostly us, as far as a reunion went, so we reune by ourselves and avoid the •orowd. Naturally we maintain a 'high -scale of erudition and ace- ' demic flavor, such 'as pumping -out a boat or taking down an overdue birch that might topple on the woodshed. We think it's a good thing. So we started along, an odd Maine license plate in the long •lines of visiting states, and as we -held far to the right' to let the tourists zing past us in pro- fusion it so happened that we came behind another Maine license plate, and we remarked on it. "The natives are moving," She said. Sometimes a Maine license on a Maine road sort of attracts your eye, and you won- . der who it is. This fellow didn't happen to be anybody we .knew. He was sitting hi the right front seat, and we assumed the lady driVing was his wife, for the back seat was lined with live Children. As we made this' ob- , servation, one of the 'children ran Oland out the Windew and 'released the wrapper from a candy bar; whereat 'she said, "Now, -.Mother and Dad haven't spoken to Junior about -litter- bugging!" Hardly has she said this when Daddy-0, himself, ran an arm out and bove's pop bottle, or as L„..-ive call them--in Maine, a '`so0- `‘'bottle" inter the ditch. It bounced e couple-of times. and disappear- ed into a clump -of ox-eyed daisies.. - - - We •followed this automobile ' most of out- way, and the five children held a back-seat picnic while we watched. The children , themselves -disposed , of all 'the sandwich • wrappers and water- .. melon rinds but 'Daddy was the specializing heaver of .pop bot- tles. He got fairly'good at it. He could hit a sign that said "Wind- , ing Road" very nicely; He hit utility poles almost every time. Ile had an, underhand flip that was a dandy. Customer: "Have you a book called, 'Man, Master- of the Home'?" Salesgirl: "Try the fiction de. partment, please." Customs relating to morality can often be traced to climate and geography, Monogamy is the established rule 'in the West. Polygamy is permitted — 'and ,sometimes enforced — in 'the East. In Arabia and certain other Moslem lands, a maximum of 'four wives is allawed to a man of substance and good .repute. Westerners regard this Islamic law as being for the.-special benefit of -the male. In fact, it was designed for the weNare of the female, In Bedouin tribes it was a source of rnischiev,to have unattached, ,frustrated ;women footloose in the camps. • • Even in towns where Western -influence predominates, many Arab women still prefer to be one -of three or four wives rather 'than the "one and only." It isn't unusual fOr women in ,:the:nomadic tribes to request the - husband to take on another •wife or two to assist*with -child bear- ing and the- Chores. A girl -at the 'Mahe tribe married -to the son `of a sheikh was so comely that the' young husband wanted -no other feminine 'company. With- in a Year or two, she urged him to take' a second.. He-re- fused, and the wife took the case before the Sheikh himself and the council of elders. The young husband strove to defend' his position. :He loved his wife and wanted no 'other. woman in his tents; The elders confer- ted, and the. Sheikh announced the judgment: ' "By the Beard of the Prepliet," he said, "the plea of 'my son is both unnatural and selfish. He must take a. second wife to his tents, for so it has been decreed by the elders." • DOG 'DAZE' • Licensing authoiities of Carth- age Mo. hit upon the novel idea of reminding dog owners that dog licences were due by sending the notice addressed to the dog. So smitten' with the idea was one dog's owner, Mr. V. Herron, that, immediately upon receipt Of the reminder, he sat down and wrote a cheque, and then made the 'signature' with his dog's paw imprintt GREGORY WAS ttrriPA cyregary Peck signs "Gregor)* wale here" 'en the epidermis of Porisienne frederique Lomiactol. Morel In Juan-Les-Pins, Noose, on the Riviera. Of course, Prederique traid shell never Wash It off. tried alert Not what it's jack• ed. up to be. bian Sheikh, who -boarded a plane at -Mecca to travel to - New York, plunged at 'once into soulful' meditation.-- Breaking .-of f his communion 'with -Allah '-anrl 4 seeing -a, stewardess 'standing be- :aide ,him, he- shrieked in -fury. Here was an insult to his /aith — an unveiled woman almost touching him! • . • The poor girl fled,- -net know- .ing.-how.to cope with :this out- ._raged dignitary. A male steward smoothed h I down,- tactfully exPlaining that the girl was ' no woman in the ordinary sense, .but a member of the 'aircraft's crew. This, pacefied him — and for the remainder Of the jour- ney he and the stewardess were the best of friends. The line employs 225 steward- esses, many of them exception- ally beautiful girls. 'They are sometimes, quite -innocently, the cause of broken hearts:. A forty-year-old tourist re- cently eyed an attractive girl in the bar of the Negresco :Hotel at Nice. 'He immediately fell for her. But being rather he did not dare speak to- her. Then he spotted the letters KLM on 'a key dangling from her slender waist. Excitedly, he went . to the nearest desk and wrote a letter pouring out his-heart to the "giri 'of 'his dreams." He addressed it to "Miss KLM, Negresco Hotel, Nice." It go happened that the line's loCal tepreSentative has his office there., Imagine his surprise when he' 'simnel the 'letter and read lts romantic -Contents. The line bas been a -pioneer In transporting animals by sir. Its first donsignmeht..Wag a load- of bees, but today, in, APeciallY seated compartments under ox- port Veterinary Contra, it Biel all varieties of littesteek—aeoll., /tortes, Silo* Nava* pedigree dogs and bulls, dray=014 -eineke, queen bet* titota,AUOttkeya and elephants. "When trail-Sporting an ele pliant," a representative stated, "we • alWayS put a hen hi its cab i'n. The 'elephant's girl friend,' as we call her, sits On his head throughout the trip and keeps him taint and contented. We discovered this quite by AC-, eident some years' ago, and now would not think of flying an elephant iiitYWhere- Without him a putch hen 'for Coin, pang: Once the the cotivoyod tVire Attentine queen ants with twenty consorts all packed 'in a tin container Which, in turn, WAS lieueed inside a wooden boot These tints were to stock -a lob, logical institute, Electrie eels, curried or a -flintier purpose, are--Shut lip' in specially ed t'onteineis. Otherwise, with their Bower to generate stings of 360,-k la 350 volts, their escatie Mien' indeed prat* shocking!- , In, 1919, -'he loresair enormous possibilities - for .civilian ' transport. He had no "planes 'of !' his own, and no money, to buy them. Greatly -daring, however, he drained the'•hoggy-Schiphol -meadows, secured : Queen Wil- -helmina!s -patronage -for his scheme and chartered 'planes from. a British firm- to form the World's first regular passenger ' air services, On July • 26th, 1920, he Mau- . .gitrated a regular London to Betterdana air service ---and a .great -airline was launched. Nowadays, airliners fly along straight, well-regulated traffic lanes. But in the "Flying Dutch- man's" era, the pilot often pun. shed a sigma track, picking his way by -railway lines, rivers, cathedrals, and even by farm- houses,' whose womenfolk con- veniently hung -out their wash- ing at fixed times. Once he reached Calais, the' starting point .of his Channel crossing, he followed the direc- tion, of the town's .long, straight -• pier. Across the Channel, his 'route was practically foolproof. He simply followed the railway line frorn Dover to _London. One pilot WAS doing this 'when . hit small biplane ran into strong headwinds which greatly reduc- ed its maximum speed of eighty- five mp.h. Looking out, his two passengers saw the Dover to London express racing along be- low — and leaving' the 'plane Well behind. They' protested about this snail-like progress: • The pilot „passed On their com- plaints to the lineti far-sighted Was. "When you next use the train as a guide, fly "over' 'the top of it then your Paisen- tete WWI see it," Was his astute Passengers on the planes ways had to wear .goggles, het,- Mita; parachutes, and YeeltinuffS and, if it was cold, het Water bottles Were supplied. 'they Were told to inflate their :lifejackets only if they landed iri Water: Diatabedience of this order blikkaaaed one passenger,. Fog !breed the pilot to fly loW over AIM Channel: Panicking; his pas, Sanger , inflated his lifejacket; But the 'plane tinselled on, lend, g safely at Rotterdam. The pilot got .out but the pitasenger reMaihed his Cabin lined there- '"by his jacket and. quite unable to ifitiVel In 1948; A distinguished . Fag- tern passenger on it KIM dir, liner from Anisterdain to the E a -a t Indiet became beWitched lir' the craft's pretty, atiblitti, -h aired hoStess. A- Priwerfal. Sheikh in his own kitigdoin, he et -once began to eniiisage the girl as an addition to his harem. 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