English slang

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No: HPFGUIDX 80214

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sylviablundell2001" 
<sylviablundell at a...> wrote:
> Berk is Cockney rhyming slang for an extremely rude name i.e. 
> Berkshire Hunt.  Most people have forgotten the original meaning or 
> they wouldn't use it so readily!  Git I think comes from misbegot, 
> i.e. a bastard.  Again, the original meaning has vanished.  Where 
> pillock comes from, I haven't a clue.  Should be glad to know 
though.
> Sylvia (not usually this pedantic)


Laura (blushing):

Yikes...I think I'll change the subject now.  I'm not sure I want to 
know that last derivation...*smiles*