2007-01-12 04:11:12 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
A "true" cockney is often said to be someone born within earshot of the Bow Bells, i.e. the bells of St Mary-le-Bow church in Cheapside in the City of London. However, the bells were silent from the outbreak of World War II until 1961. Also, as the general din in London has increased, the area in which the bells can be heard has contracted. Formerly it included the City, Clerkenwell, Finsbury, Shoreditch, Hoxton, Stepney, Bethnal Green, Whitechapel, Shadwell, Bermondsey, and Rotherhithe, although according to the legend of Dick Whittington the bells could be heard from as far away as Highgate.
2007-01-12 04:21:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are born within the sound of the Bow Bells then you are said to be a true cockney xxx
2007-01-12 04:13:14 · answer #2 · answered by starlet108 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A true cockney is someone who is born under the sound of bow bells, so they say
ronnie and reggie kray were born under the sound of bow bells
2007-01-12 04:17:50 · answer #3 · answered by meditation and mango juice 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A true cockney has a red spot on it where it is being rubbed on by something a little higher up in the denims.
2007-01-12 04:16:21 · answer #4 · answered by Eva 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
To be born within the sound of the Bow bells. Outside of the Bow bells, your a Londoner. Bow bells East London.
2007-01-12 04:15:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well traditionally the Bow Bells brigade are right but I have a feeling that the bells were lost in WW 2 and never replaced, I could be talking out of my bum though.
2007-01-12 04:17:38 · answer #6 · answered by ♣ My Brainhurts ♣ 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Born and Bred east London
2007-01-12 04:14:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are a true cockney if you like jellied eels and you are soft
2007-01-12 04:14:22 · answer #8 · answered by nick w 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
cant believe that as a welsh man i deem to answer this,lol but is it not a person who was born within the sound of the Bow bells ?
2007-01-12 04:15:21 · answer #9 · answered by Tony a 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
meant to be born within the sound of bow bells
2007-01-12 04:13:27 · answer #10 · answered by pepzi_bandit 2 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋