what a cockney accent?

Question

where are they located?

Answer 1

A cockney accent refers to speaking with a certain accent and often using rhyming slang. For example,
Apples and Pears = Stairs

Cockneys can be found in London, East London to be specific.

Answer 2

If it's still on, you can catch an episode of "Eastenders" on PBS. It's a soap opera staged in the East End where the Cockneys are.

Answer 3

London

Answer 4

in london, basically if you live in england and have the english accent it shud b easy for u to talk cockney, and the slang.
im english and me and my scottish mate talk cockney all the time just to mess around.

Answer 5

Birmingham is Britain's worst accent, according to a BBC survey

Cockney

Originally the dialect of the working class of East End London.

initial h is dropped, so house becomes /aus/ (or even /a:s/).
/th/ and /dh/ become /f/ and /v/ respectively: think > /fingk/, brother > /brœv'/.
t between vowels becomes a glottal stop: water > /wo?i/.
diphthongs change, sometimes dramatically: time > /toim/, brave > /braiv/, etc.
Besides the accent, it includes a large number of slang words, including the famous rhyming slang:

have a butchers -- take a look [from butcher's hook = look]
north and south -- mouth
plates -- feet [from plates of meat = feet]
boat race -- face
skin and blister -- sister
trouble -- wife [from trouble and strife = wife]
dustbin lids -- kids / children
whistle -- suit [from whistle and flute = suit]
oily rag -- fag = cigarette
jam jar -- car
mince pies -- eyes
pen and ink -- stink
porkies -- lies [from pork pies = lies]
titfer -- hat [from tit for tat = hat]
apples and pears -- stairs
Jimmy -- urinate [from Jimmy Riddle = piddle]
Bertie Woofter -- gay man [from Bertie Woofter = poofter]
China -- mate / friend [from China plate = mate]
Khyber -- buttocks [from Khyber Pass = ***]
rabbit and pork -- talk
tea leaf -- thief
taters -- cold [from potato mold = cold]
dog and bone -- phone
loaf -- head [from loaf of bread = head]
brown bread -- dead
elbows and knees -- trees
gold watch -- Scotch
pride and joy -- boy
current bun -- Sun
dicky -- shirt [from dicky dirt = shirt]
pots and pans -- hands
jugs -- ears [from jugs of beers = ears]
ones and twos -- shoes
daisies -- boots [from daisy roots = boots]
bird -- prison [from bird lime = time, as in doing time]
(from Kryss Katsiavriades at http://www.krysstal.com/cockney.html)

Estuary English

From London down the Thames and into Essex, Sussex, and even Kent, a new working and middle class dialect has evolved and is rapidly become "the" southern dialect. It combines some of the characteristics of Cockney with RP, but makes much less use of Cockney slang.