Comments by "Big Blue" (@bigblue6917) on "Thieves’ Cant: The Secret Language Used By Criminals For Centuries" video.

Cockney rhyming slang was said to have come about so that criminals could talk to each other without the police in London knowing what was being said. This came about because the would frequent pubs and such dressed in disguise so they could overhear conversations. some of you may know that a pub was a rubberdub. This would later be shortened to rubber.
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