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The cockney dialect is not dead – it’s just called ‘Essex’ now

As English dialects go, cockney is one of the most influential. Long considered the preserve of working-class communities in east London, it has shaped the way people speak across the country, from ...
JD Supra

What does your accent say about you?

Would you change your accent to be accepted, or to gain an advantage? Absolutely! Back in the day when I was a teenager, I endlessly practised a “cockney” accent to get in with a crowd of boys, one of ...
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Barbara Windsor: you’re more likely to hear a cockney accent in Essex than east London now

Barbara Windsor as Peggy Mitchel in the BBC soap opera Eastenders. BBC Or maybe you think of Dame Barbara Windsor, who died on December 9. She was a cockney icon, born in 1937 in Shoreditch, east ...
Dawn

WIDE ANGLE: CAINE’S COCKNEY GOES AI

Few actors are imitated as often as Michael Caine. Even Michael Caine has imitated Michael Caine. His voice has been used in birthday card greetings and has been the source of jokes in various comedy ...