Yiddish is a familiar presence in contemporary English speech. Many people use or at least know the meaning of words like chutzpah (audacity), schlep (drag) or nosh (snack). These words have been ...

We ended last week’s column with the Yiddish expression plotkes, loksh, boydem, politsa, “crappies, noodles, attic, shelf,” or alternately, loksh, boydem, politsa or boydem mit politsa, in the sense ...

Cockney sayings traditionally include rhyming slang — with the Queen called Baked Bean, for instance THE late Queen sounded increasingly Cockney through her 70-year reign, according to research.

Introduced by Melvyn Bragg, Word of Mouth traced the pattern of speech in Britain. Cockney Lives OK focused on the familiar working-class accent synonymous with London's East End, charting the origin ...

THE late Queen sounded increasingly Cockney through her 70-year reign, according to research. Experts say certain words evolved more of an East End twang than her traditional “received pronunciation”.