Cockney accent gone in the next decade or so.
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Cockney accent gone in the next decade or so.
http://news.uk.msn.com/uk/articles.aspx?cp-documentid=154026130
Some people over the years have derided this accent but it's more attractive than the horrible hybrid one referred to in the article and now spoken by many inner-Londoners.
Some people over the years have derided this accent but it's more attractive than the horrible hybrid one referred to in the article and now spoken by many inner-Londoners.
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Re: Cockney accent gone in the next decade or so.
Yor joking, incha?
Would ya Adam and Eve it ...
Would ya Adam and Eve it ...
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Big Ben in tears.
Original Yorkshire-ish is worse. Is there a name for it?
Original Yorkshire-ish is worse. Is there a name for it?
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Doubt if Big Ben could GAF ... it's the Bow Bells that'll have a hissy fit!
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Accents and dialects come and go
Talking of Michaelangelo.
Theres no Cockerknees any more - just cabbies and Eastender actors.
Talking of Michaelangelo.
Theres no Cockerknees any more - just cabbies and Eastender actors.
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"Actors" - oh you...
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PeterCS wrote:Accents and dialects come and go
Talking of Michaelangelo.
Theres no Cockerknees any more - just cabbies and Eastender actors.
Take a stroll down the Aldgate or Commercial Road, Petrus ... or even a saunter around West Ham ... you might be pleasantly surprised!
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Peter will be blowing more than just bubbles...
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I reject that innuendo.
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Merlin wrote:PeterCS wrote:Accents and dialects come and go
Talking of Michaelangelo.
Theres no Cockerknees any more - just cabbies and Eastender actors.
Take a stroll down the Aldgate or Commercial Road, Petrus ... or even a saunter around West Ham ... you might be pleasantly surprised!
I do. But it's all defocussed Estuary-ish these days. More "Oi! knees app ya groin, Brahhn yeah? hur-hur-hur!" than "Kneezap, Mav-va Brahhn nah yer o' man's brahhn bredd, gorr bloimey wodda norf and sarf in them traahzuz"
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*Get it while it's paper and wood*
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'Allo me ol' choina! Wot sye we pop dahnnda rub? I'll stand ya a pig and you can rabbit on abahht yer teapots. Venn we can 'ave some loop an tommy, an you can be off back to yer ol' trabbuww before the ickory-dickory 'its twelve if you know woddamean loike.
Who speaks like that any more?
Who speaks like that any more?
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