One of these things is not like the others:

[girlyswot]

Track


Bristol


Willow


Piper


Elvendork


Trig


Sarah Palin's children's names are in fact, rhyming slang:

Track (and field): well-heeled, rich
Bristol (City): titty, tits
(Weeping) Willow: pillow
(Pied) Piper: hyper
Trig(onometry): geometry

Okay, I made two of those up. But still, it would probably be foolish for any of these children to emigrate to the UK.

Comments

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

In my list I explained it: Bristol City = titty. Tit is very common slang for breast in the UK.

Isn't Piper Laurie Australian?

[nundu-art.livejournal.com]

Nope, she was born in Detroit, Michigan.

'Titty' was common enough when I was a child, but only by giggly children just beginning to experiment with such scandalous language. 'Boob' is the more common term here in the US nowadays.

I thought rhyming slang was just a cockney thing. It's all over?

And why would it be called 'Bristol City'? Is there anything else (geographically, that is! ;P) called Bristol, like a county? Am I over analyising this?

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

Bristol City is a football team. There are some rhyming slang expressions that have fallen into general use. Most people would know what you meant if you talked about 'a pair of Bristols'.

[nundu-art.livejournal.com]

Bristol City is a football team ahh, that makes sense now. Just curious about the rhyming slang. Of course here in the US (particularly in the south) we have our own, unique language. For instance, you'd probably have to hear it said to begin to understand what 'mawmernem' meant. (spelling is not formalized and would change according the to regional dialect ;))

[rhetoretician.livejournal.com]

Many important people were born in Detroit.