Rabbit was (is?) slang for talking. That maybe behind the name. Also love the storytelling and research here.
And Rumbelows is another blast from the past. Is that still around?
And Rumbelows is another blast from the past. Is that still around?
From rhyming slang “rabbit and pork = talk” apparently.
Example: "comment and post" for "eat toast".
for example too (for a single word example)
My Canadian ear somehow corrects the "pork" and "talk" so that they still don't quite rhyme (though they're certainly close enough for slant rhyme)
I hear the "r" in pork even if it's less audible than it would be in my English. And the "a" in talk sounds a little more like the "a" I'm familiar with from talk than the "o" in pork does.
Most of these accents have a rhotic r but not a rhotic (lotic?) l in this position.
1. The "r" in pork is pronounced in most American accents,
2. The vowel is not the same.
/pʰɔk/ and /tʰɔk/
I don't want to rabbit on all day about sunny periods and patches of rain spreading from the west.
I wanted to be…
A lumberjack!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGNojF9qKS0&pp=ygUUY2hhcyBhb...
with your incessant talking,
you're becoming a pest,
> Rumbelows had been losing £12 million yearly, and had never made a profit in its 24 years of existence
Blazing the trail for modern internet companies!
Once again young'n's think they invented everything, including such games of economic chicken, but we find nothing is really new.
People were unbelievable angry, I worked in the callcentre and we'd have people turning up threatening to kill us, others sent us boxes full of literal shit. Not the greatest job ever.
Rumbelows went out of business, many stores became Escom and they too went out of business pretty quickly.
I very nearly bought an Escom Amiga in May 1996 but got a Pentium 60 Commodore branded PC instead.
By July Escom was done.
I find those liquidation sales quite depressing now but at the time it stuck out as being really exciting and we got a stereo quite cheap.