Cockney

For other uses, see Cockney (disambiguation).

Cockney
Cockney dialect
Native toEngland
RegionLondon (Middlesex, Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent, Surrey)
Early forms
Latin (English alphabet)
Language codes
ISO 639-3–
GlottologNone
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Example of a Cockney accent
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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Example of a Cockney accent
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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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]

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.

  1. ^ Green, Jonathon "Cockney" Archived 6 July 2014 at the Wayback Machine. Oxford English Dictionary. Retrieved 10 April 2017.
  2. ^ Miller, Marjorie (8 July 2001). "Say what? Paris's cockney culture looks a bit different" . Chicago Tribune.
  3. ^ Oakley, Malcolm (30 September 2013). "History of The East London Cockney". East London History. Archived from the original on 29 April 2023.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference phrase was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Cockney" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 627.
  6. ^ "Cockney | Accent, Rhyming Slang, & Facts | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Archived from the original on 12 November 2020. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
  7. ^ "Estuary English Q and A - JCW". Phon.ucl.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 11 January 2010. Retrieved 16 August 2010.
  8. ^ Roach, Peter (2009). English Phonetics and Phonology. Cambridge. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-521-71740-3.
  9. ^ Trudgill, Peter (1999), The Dialects of England (2nd ed.), Wiley, p. 80, ISBN 0-631-21815-7