Costermonger a secret language, a code which only other costermongers understood. In her book, "Shadows of the Workhouse", Jennifer Worth observed that "Costers... spoke to each other almost entirely in back slang; incomprensible to an outsider." Many costermongers also used "rhyming slang"; where any word can be substituted with another word that rhymes with it. Examples of rhyming slang include: "tin lids" or "dustpan lids" for "kids"; "jimmy grant" for "emigrant"; "apple and pears" for "stairs"; "rubbidy dub" for "pub" and "trouble and strife" for "wife". The selection of rhyming words often suggested a symbolic association. For example, a "sorrowful tale"
Apples and oranges The only significant differences found were in terms of seeds (the study used seedless oranges), the involvement of Johnny Appleseed, and color. The "Annals of Improbable Research" subsequently noted that the "earlier investigation was done with more depth, more rigour, and, most importantly, more expensive equipment" than the "British Medical Journal" study. On April Fools' Day 2014, "The Economist" compared worldwide production of apples and oranges from 1983 to 2013, however noted them to be "unrelated variables". While references to comparing apples and oranges are often a rhetorical device, references to adding apples and oranges are made in the case