London – The Big Smoke: This nickname dates all the way back to the 19th century, when smoke covered the city of London - largely caused by the burning of coal and worsened by the Industrial Revolution.
The Big Smoke is perhaps the most well known of London's nicknames. London was once an industrial hotbed, with many factories all over the city. A culmination of these and the fuels used to heat residential homes caused London to be an extremely smoky city.
Cockney rhyming slang is a form of English slang which originated in the East End of London . Many of its expressions have passed into common language, and the creation of new ones is no longer restricted to Cockneys.
The City of London (often known as the City or the Square Mile) is a city, ceremonial county and local government district in England. Established by the Romans around 47 AD as Londinium, it forms the historic centre of the wider London metropolis.
Answer and Explanation: In 1984, Great Britain is part of Oceania and is known as Airstrip One. London remains known as London. The book does not definitively say why England is now known as Airstrip One.
Today, the name is used exclusively to refer to New York City, and is used with regularity by journalists and news headline writers across the English-speaking world.
London – City Of Love: Why The UK Capital Is More Romantic Than Paris. Paris is often referred to as the city of love, and hopeless romantics all around the world have their eyes set on the French capital.
London – The Big Smoke: This nickname dates all the way back to the 19th century, when smoke covered the city of London - largely caused by the burning of coal and worsened by the Industrial Revolution.
LND may refer to: London, Chapman code. Lingfield College, Lingfield Notre Dame, a primary and secondary school in England. Lega Nazionale Dilettanti, Italian football association that organizes amateur football leagues including Serie D. Hunt Field, a small airport in Lander, Wyoming.
The word flat is derived from the Old Scottish/Old English word 'flet'. The flet is the interior of the home. Some also think the phrase stuck as most flats are on one floor, and so by definition, the accommodation is on the flat (i.e., no stairs inside).
The name of London is derived from a word first attested, in Latinised form, as Londinium. By the first century CE, this was a commercial centre in Roman Britain. The etymology of the name is uncertain.
A rookery, in the colloquial English of the 18th and 19th centuries, was a city slum occupied by poor people and frequently also by criminals and prostitutes. Such areas were overcrowded, with low-quality housing and little or no sanitation.
"Oi" has been particularly associated with working class and Cockney speech. It is effectively a local pronunciation of "hoy" (see H-dropping), an older expression. A study of the Cockney dialect in the 1950s found that whether it was being used to call attention or as a challenge depended on its tone and abruptness.
Bonnie. Interpretation: A common Scottish phrase that means "pretty" or "beautiful" normally in reference to a woman or lass. In use: "She's a bonnie lass."
