{"id":27588,"date":"2013-10-27T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2013-10-27T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=27588"},"modified":"2013-11-01T16:50:54","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T20:50:54","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-climb-apples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2013\/uncommon-knowledge-climb-apples\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: When do you climb apples?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/apple-tree-to-be-kit?source=blog\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/16028_zoom1.jpg\" alt=\"Apple Tree To Be Kit | UncommonGoods\" width=\"550\" height=\"648\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28003\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/16028_zoom1.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/16028_zoom1-300x353.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>You climb apples when they\u2019re the stairs. And that answer isn\u2019t just arbitrary\u2014it\u2019s the translation of an iconic piece of Cockney rhyming slang. The practice began in London\u2019s East End around 160 years ago, and involves a linguistic process called hemiteleia, where one word is substituted for another. For example: for the Cockney slang-slinger, the word \u201cstairs\u201d might evoke the rhyming phrase \u201capples and pears.\u201d That phrase would be shortened to just \u201capples,\u201d which would then be used in place of the original word. Sounds needlessly complicated? That may have been the point: the system may have developed as a game, or a code for peddlers or criminals to use. Whatever the case, Cockney rhyming slang can still be found in American English today. When we refer to money as \u201cbread,\u201d it\u2019s because \u201cmoney\u201d rhymes with \u201cbread and honey.\u201d You \u201cput up your dukes\u201d to fight because \u201cDuke of York\u201d rhymes with \u201cfork\u201d (an antique slang word for a fist). And if you blow someone a raspberry, it\u2019s because \u201craspberry tart\u201d rhymes with the name for that unfortunate biological emanation that the sound is imitating.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/apple-tree-to-be-kit?source=blog\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Tree To Be Kit, $22<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You climb apples when they\u2019re the stairs. And that answer isn\u2019t just arbitrary\u2014it\u2019s the translation of an iconic piece of Cockney rhyming slang. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":28004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}