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Changing consonants to create rhymes

the word and generally this is a consonant or a consonant cluster for example ease ease bees knees bees knees is a copy apart from the consonant sounds at the start of the words...

Course: Richer words and phrasesSection: Rhyming slang and wordplaySubtitles: en

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the beginning of

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the word and generally this is a

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consonant or a consonant cluster for

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example ease ease bees knees bees knees

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is a copy apart from the consonant

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sounds at the start of the words

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two-part expressions like this sound

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extremely informal and bring the

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register right down to a fun level so

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that you won't sound

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hoity-toity another one hoity-toity is

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behaving like you are better than

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everyone else I hate all this

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hoity-toity here are a few more boogie

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boogie I love love that boogie woogie

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boogie means dance and so does Boogie

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Woogie let's go out next weekend and

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Boogie Woogie uh that one does sound a

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little old-fashioned this one does too

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but not in the same way fuddy duddy

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fuddy duddy this noun or sometimes

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adjective describes someone who is

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old-fashioned or something that is

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old-fashioned I find it adorable though

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don't be such a fuddy duddy come out

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tonight or his outfit was a bit fuddy

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daddy we also have quite a childish one

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Silly Billy Silly Billy and this is what

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we say to children who aren't behaving

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in a sensible way we also use it a lot

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with our pets because we

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