193 people… Come on now. Plus if you want the cockney accent now you definitely don’t go to east London, they’ve all moved out.
It’s probably for the best. It’s lazy English anyway.
accents croak and new ones appear that’s language for you.
That won’t stop Americans defaulting to it whenever they do a bad impression of an English accent.
It’s a shame we’ll be famous for shit teeth again though, and the nhs dentists aren’t there to help us.
Re. the headline, surely *believe* would be just *Adam* in Cockney rhyming slang?
Adam –> Adam and Eve –> believe
Only people I know who use cockney anymore are in their 60s-70s. Younger people find it uncool and talk like roadmen instead lol
That’s what happens when whole areas undergo massive demographic changes in a short space of time
All the cockneys live in Essex and Kent now. There still abaht
I’d argue that MLE is still a type of Cockney accent. But happens everywhere when the area changes. Liverpool used to have more of a Lancashire accent but evolved into scouse when Irish and Scandi dockworkers moved there
More cockneys in Kent and Essex now by far. All I hear in East London now is Arabic and the road man dialect with a few tourist languages thrown about.
MLE is now the London accent for 2nd gen UK and above.
Probably because only one third of people living in London are British, and most of those are either from cities outside of London originally, or were born and brought up in wealthier areas.
Though I’ve been told neighbouring counties like Kent have similar accents to cockney…
There haven’t been any new Cockneys since the new arrivals in the area got the bells of Bow Church switched off.
Shocking – unless the population are embarrassed by the faux-accents of hams within “Eastenders” and modulate their authentic accents to avoid unnecessary comparison.
In more general terms, haven’t authentic accents disappeared from other areas due to mobility, people moving outside an area and people moving in?
I literally can’t understand a word they say anyway..
Someone better tell the Eastenders writers
maybe in another 10 years they’ll finally realise the east London demographics have changed just a wee bit
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193 people… Come on now. Plus if you want the cockney accent now you definitely don’t go to east London, they’ve all moved out.
It’s probably for the best. It’s lazy English anyway.
accents croak and new ones appear that’s language for you.
That won’t stop Americans defaulting to it whenever they do a bad impression of an English accent.
It’s a shame we’ll be famous for shit teeth again though, and the nhs dentists aren’t there to help us.
Re. the headline, surely *believe* would be just *Adam* in Cockney rhyming slang?
Adam –> Adam and Eve –> believe
Only people I know who use cockney anymore are in their 60s-70s. Younger people find it uncool and talk like roadmen instead lol
That’s what happens when whole areas undergo massive demographic changes in a short space of time
All the cockneys live in Essex and Kent now. There still abaht
I’d argue that MLE is still a type of Cockney accent. But happens everywhere when the area changes. Liverpool used to have more of a Lancashire accent but evolved into scouse when Irish and Scandi dockworkers moved there
More cockneys in Kent and Essex now by far. All I hear in East London now is Arabic and the road man dialect with a few tourist languages thrown about.
MLE is now the London accent for 2nd gen UK and above.
Probably because only one third of people living in London are British, and most of those are either from cities outside of London originally, or were born and brought up in wealthier areas.
Though I’ve been told neighbouring counties like Kent have similar accents to cockney…
There haven’t been any new Cockneys since the new arrivals in the area got the bells of Bow Church switched off.
Shocking – unless the population are embarrassed by the faux-accents of hams within “Eastenders” and modulate their authentic accents to avoid unnecessary comparison.
In more general terms, haven’t authentic accents disappeared from other areas due to mobility, people moving outside an area and people moving in?
I literally can’t understand a word they say anyway..
Someone better tell the Eastenders writers
maybe in another 10 years they’ll finally realise the east London demographics have changed just a wee bit