I am making a study on the dialect of London's working class. This study belongs to a field which is called sociolinguistics. I am looking for people who would be willing to be interviewed so that I can get actual data of this dialect, whether they claim themselves as Cockneys or not. I am interested in any age group: the social background is the most important.
2006-10-01 12:17:23 · 18 answers · asked by didoon8 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Don't bother with residents of Brick lane now cos its full of asians. The old East Enders all moved out, some went to essex, some to middx and some to north london, hendon, golders green, edgware areas. I was born in the London Hospital, Whitechapel, so i guess u would call me a real 'cockney'. As a child i guess u would say that i sounded like a 'right cockney' but have now 'poshed up my voice'. Not sure exactly what info u want but feel free to email me and ask me anything, if i can help, i will. Good luck.
2006-10-01 12:25:52 · answer #1 · answered by english_rose10 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think you missed the boat. Cockneys have been displaced from their london homelands by immigration and have become assimilated into the suburban cultural scene and have largely lost their cultural identity and dialect in the process.
The efects on the urban working class of immigration has either been ignored or treated as a good move by authority.
The only cockneys you will find will be merely consciously imitating the dialects they have heard rather than unconsciously replicatig the speech patterns of their peers.
My own local dialect, Cotswold Hills dialect has effectively died within the last 20 years.
2006-10-01 13:05:42 · answer #2 · answered by "Call me Dave" 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To be a true cockney you need to have been born within the sound of "The Bow Bells"
The Bow Bells are in the East end of London and the sound when they toll extend several miles.
A true cockney will ive in this area, however if you just want to learn the rhyming slang then that is another whole new can of worms.
I lived in London for a few years and I did get to know a lot of it, although I would not class myself as an expert.
2006-10-01 12:22:18 · answer #3 · answered by froggy010101 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is more than one working class dialect in London. Cockney is the East End dialect although there are very few people who genuinely speak in rhyming slang.... in fact that's more 'mockney' or fake cockney.
For genuine EastEnders you need to try Bow, Poplar, Canning Town and east out through Newham to Barking and Dagenham.
2006-10-01 12:28:53 · answer #4 · answered by Bridget F 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cockneys ain't a mucha on Suffolk lingo! Far better dialect.
2006-10-01 12:30:12 · answer #5 · answered by Nellie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try Viz comic's Although there From Newcastle - Just ask them about Cocney W*nker - so funny
2006-10-01 12:46:10 · answer #6 · answered by toons 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suggest you try the stall holders in Brick Lane market or people in a local pub, cab drivers are good, look for a cab rank or try a workmen's cafe.
2006-10-01 12:20:53 · answer #7 · answered by hjpollock 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Fackin roit you lie-yin kant.
Yew juswanner get yor filffyands on sumpaw-bints froopnies.
Yew fackin toffi-nose nonsey kant.
Pissorf bakkter fakkin came brijj.
Yew kant.
Fackin nonse.
Fackin so shul back fackin grarn my arst.
Kant.
Ooojer fink we are ?
Er nuvver wunneryuh speri-bleedin-mints.
Fackin kant.
2006-10-01 12:34:54 · answer #8 · answered by Robert Abuse 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Cockney..you'll be lucky....don't hear many english voices in London these days.
2006-10-01 12:22:52 · answer #9 · answered by Saskia M 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
try colleges in the east end on london
2006-10-01 12:28:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋