'Being a Cockney means having community spirit'

As the Modern Cockney Festival enters its third year, people in south east England with a Cockney connection reflect on what ...
The Cheat Sheet

‘My Fair Lady’: Audrey Hepburn’s Cockney Accent Was ‘Too Thick’ to Understand at First

Of course, Hepburn’s singing was dubbed inadequate for My Fair Lady and while the actor still recorded all the songs herself, another singer’s voice was utilized for the majority of the film. But ...
The Conversation

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

Amanda Cole does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
The Conversation

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 ...
Reuters

"Jafaican" sounds replace Cockney patter in London

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - A London arts center is compiling an archive of poetry and phrases in the city's historic Cockney dialect as a study shows the accent is being driven out of the capital by the ...