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“cockney, n. and adj.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, December 2019. Available at:   www.oed.com/view/Entry/35467. Accessed on January 20, 2020. “rhyming slang, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, December 2019. Available at: http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/274965. Accessed on January 20, 2020. De Boinod, A. J. 2018. Cockney. Available at: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Cockney Acessed on January 18, 2020. Green, J. 2012. Cockney. Available at: https://public.oed.com/blog/cockney/. AcessedContinue reading “Bibliography”

On this page you can find everything about Cockney Rhyming slang, including its history, slang translator and more: https://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk

Below you can find a trasncript of Adele’s acceptance speech at 59th GRAMMY awards. Words with prominent Cockney features are marked in bold. Thank you. Hi, guys. Hi, everyone. Hi, hi, hi. As you can see it took an army to make me strong and willing again enough to do it. But thank you allContinue reading “Case study”

Linguistic features adapted from Pronunciation Studio are listed below: H-dropping  In cockney, you don’t pronounce /h/ at all. So ‘horrible’ is /ɒrɪbəw/, ‘hospital’ is /ɒspɪʔəw/, ‘who’ is /uː/ and ‘help’ is /ewp/. T-glottaling  Cockney speakers will use glottal stops to replace /t/ before consonants and weak vowels: water /wɔ:ʔə/, cottage /kɒʔɪdʒ/. It is also common for aContinue reading “Linguistic features”

What is Cockney? The origins of the word Cockney are quite interesting. The first and the earliest meaning of Cockney is the egg of a domestic fowl or cock’s egg. (OED). However, there were some alternative uses of the word. One of them is a spoilt or pampered person, especially a child, an indulged or undisciplined person (oed). CockneyContinue reading “Introduction”