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Need a speckled hen and not near a cab rank, where do you find some sausage and mash?
Why, you go to your local cash machine of course and, if you live in east London, you might even come across one which gives you the option of proceeding in a variety of languages - and offering cockney. The idea is the brainchild of Ron Delnevo at the Bank Machine Company, which already offers the option of Welsh - where else but in Wales - and is introducing Gaelic in Scotland. "When someone suggested cockney they were only joking," he says. "But I thought why not?" He maintains that it makes it more fun for people to use cash machines and that it also creates a conversation piece. So a speckled hen becomes £10, a cab rank is a bank, and sausage and mash is cash. Ismat Ullah never understood why people laughed as they walked away from the cash machine situated in front on his convenience store in East London's Commercial Road, until somebody explained to him the intricacies of cockney rhyming slang....Read more here
Why, you go to your local cash machine of course and, if you live in east London, you might even come across one which gives you the option of proceeding in a variety of languages - and offering cockney. The idea is the brainchild of Ron Delnevo at the Bank Machine Company, which already offers the option of Welsh - where else but in Wales - and is introducing Gaelic in Scotland. "When someone suggested cockney they were only joking," he says. "But I thought why not?" He maintains that it makes it more fun for people to use cash machines and that it also creates a conversation piece. So a speckled hen becomes £10, a cab rank is a bank, and sausage and mash is cash. Ismat Ullah never understood why people laughed as they walked away from the cash machine situated in front on his convenience store in East London's Commercial Road, until somebody explained to him the intricacies of cockney rhyming slang....Read more here