Rhyming slang and toad" (the main road) and "apples and pears (stairs), as well as many more obscure examples, e.g. "Battle of the Nile" (a tile, a vulgar term for a hat), "Duke of York" (take a walk), and "Top of Rom" (home). It remains a matter of speculation whether rhyming slang was a linguistic accident, a game, or a cryptolect developed intentionally to confuse non-locals. If deliberate, it may also have been used to maintain a sense of community, or to allow traders to talk amongst themselves in marketplaces in order to facilitate collusion, without customers knowing what they were saying,
Bernard Pears pear, but contrary to what some believe, there is no William Pear in our lineage." In 1952, together with his son Clive Pears, he founded the William Pears Group. Bernard Pears Bernard Pears was an Austrian-born British businessman, and the founder of the William Pears Group, one of Britain's largest property companies. He was born Bernard Schleicher, and emigrated from Austria to Hackney, London, and changed his surname to Pears. The change of surname took place on 8 November 1939, and he gave his address as 180 Fore Street, Edmonton, London. Pears started a greengrocer business in north London, which