The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #66137   Message #1096376
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
19-Jan-04 - 12:57 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Waltzing Matilda
Subject: RE: Origins: Waltzing Matilda
"Yob" is of course current here - more so than ever perhaps. Doesn't exactly means "boy" now, but more "lout", and there's no shortage of them. I can't off-hand think of any more examples in present-day use.

That doesn't mean there might not be some - the thing about slang, whether backslang or rhyming slang, is that it tends to just merge into the language, so that people never think about it in those terms.

There's a couple of sound files on this link with a Liverpool version of backslang.