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6 News English From bbclearningenglish.com Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English.
I'm Alice.
And I'm Neil.
Could you lend me some dosh, Neil?
Sure, how much do you need?
Oh, a couple of smackers.
You're sounding a bit strange today, Alice.
Yes, I know, Neil.
Slang or informal language used by a particular group is the subject of today's show.
And I was just demonstrating a couple of slang words that mean money.
Dosh is a general term for money and a smacker is a British pound or US dollar.
OK, so cockney rhyming slang is a type of slang.
It's a coded language invented in the 19th century by cockneys,
so they could speak in front of the police without being understood.
And still on the subject of money, I have a question for you, Alice.
Oh, OK.
What's cockney rhyming slang for money?
Is it A, bread, B, honey or C, dough?