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,
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