Cockney
Accent and dialect of English spoken in London / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Cockney (disambiguation).
Cockney is a dialect of the English language, mainly spoken in London and its environs, particularly by Londoners with working-class and lower middle-class roots. The term Cockney is also used as a demonym for a person from the East End,[1][2][3] or, traditionally, born within earshot of Bow Bells.[4][5][6]
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Native to | England |
Region | London (Middlesex, Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent, Surrey) |
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ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | None |
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Voice of Michael Caine, who grew up in Southwark, London, recorded September 2010 from the BBC Radio 4 programme Front Row
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Voice of Danny Baker, who grew up in Bermondsey, London, recorded July 2007 from the BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs
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Estuary English is an intermediate accent between Cockney and Received Pronunciation, also widely spoken in and around London, as well as in wider South Eastern England.[7][8][9] In multicultural areas of London, the Cockney dialect is, to an extent, being replaced by Multicultural London English—a new form of speech with significant Cockney influence.