Britons depart from overtly class-based post-war speech epitomised by either clipped vowels or working-class dialects Charles Hymas is the Home Affairs Editor at The Telegraph. He covers crime, ...

The King's English and Cockney are no longer common dialects among young people in the South East of England, according to a new study. Researchers from the University of Essex studied the dialects of ...

Alfie and Kat from the BBC soap, Eastenders. Yvonne and Alice discuss a type of English called Cockney that some people speak in East London. In this programme, they listen to some examples of Cockney ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The term Cockney has traditionally been used to describe a person from the East End, or born within earshot of Bow Bells Saif ...

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(MENAFN- The Conversation) Cockney and received pronunciation (Queen's English) were once spoken by people of all ages, but they are no longer commonly spoken among young people in the south-east of ...

An exhibition tracing Cockney English from before the time of Charles Dickens through to the music of Blur and N-Dubz opens tomorrow. Lyrics from songs written in recent years show how "ain't" is ...

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