Dimwell Arrhythmic Rhyming Slang

In rhyming slang, a common word is replaced with a short, rhyming phrase, and then the original rhyming word is omitted ("hemiteleia"), making the origin of the phrase elusive to people unfamiliar with the use. A typical roundworld example is to refer to "stairs" as "apples", contracted from "apples and pears"

Dimwell Arrhythmic Rhyming Slang (DARS) is the only rhyming slang, anywhere, that does not rhyme and in fact is very carefully devised to avoid creating any rhyme, rhythm, alliteration, internal or external assonance, or anything even remotely resembling or which might be mistaken for poetic structure. As with all rhyming slang, it has been speculated that this is mainly to annoy or confuse outsiders (Cryptolect, or Cant) Dimwell people are just doing it better than anyone else. Or alternatively it is not carefully devised, it's just that Dimwell is aptly named.

Examples include:

"Wig" in DARS is "Prunes", as in "Syrup of Prunes" (in the Cockney rhyming slang of Roundworld, "Wig" is "Syrup, as in "Syrup of Figs" - unlike Dimwell, in this version it is clear which word has to be dropped)

"Cup and plate" - No definition, but means "not right" as in "he's a bit cup-and-plate in the head.

"Plates of meat" - no definition, but means "Kippers"

A prominent speaker is Tolliver Groat, the current Deputy Postmaster.

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