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If you were born anywhere in london you`re a tw@.

2006-09-01 09:08:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

interior the sound of the bells of St Mary Le Bow, Cheapside, interior the city. that's puzzling because of the fact there is likewise a Bow church at Bow interior the East end - which sound lots extra probable! this means that there are those days very few genuine cockneys and what there are are very prosperous! interior the previous it would desire to be reported that cockneys have been human beings from inner London, fairly the East end, nonetheless places which contain Lambeth and Bermondsey additionally qualify. those days human beings in those aspects have a tendency to be immigrants. fairly Bangladeshis in Tower Hamlets. in all risk the final stronghold of classic white working classification cockneys is Bermondsey - yet even there yuppies have become straightforward! meanwhile teenagers communicate in some undesirable mock Jamaican patois they have found out from gangsta rap. No, the cockney is as extinct because of the fact the London docks.

2016-11-06 05:55:11 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

It's not Bow in East London, it's the sound of St Mary le Bow Church.

And yes you are still a Cockney.

2006-09-01 09:09:41 · answer #3 · answered by Gavin T 7 · 1 0

Yeah, a true cockney was born to the sound of bow bells. I think that's still true and it gets confused with estuary English accents!

2006-09-01 09:11:52 · answer #4 · answered by gerbiltamer 4 · 0 0

You are a cockney if you are born within the sound of Bow bells, suppose it is still true today,,, cor blimey guvner, I see you skin and blister down the rub a dub, nice boat race she has pity about her threepenny bits

2006-09-01 09:09:28 · answer #5 · answered by banditblue1200 4 · 0 0

if your born within the sound of bow bells you are considered a cockney

2006-09-01 09:15:33 · answer #6 · answered by sam 2 · 0 0

If born within the sound of Bow Bells the answer surely is yes

2006-09-01 10:30:18 · answer #7 · answered by Barry G 2 · 0 0

Still a Cockney. Why would it have stopped?

2006-09-01 19:52:16 · answer #8 · answered by monkeyface 7 · 0 0

yes - except Cockneys now stretch from Southend on Sea to Slough

2006-09-01 09:09:44 · answer #9 · answered by http://hogshead.pokerknave.com/ 6 · 0 0

it depends, but most cockneys gone from london now

2006-09-04 11:58:27 · answer #10 · answered by MICK D 2 · 0 0

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