As alarmist headlines go, they were pretty puzzling. “Teenagers Aren’t Bobby Moore About Their Ruby Murrays and Their Rosie Lee,” fretted one British tabloid this week. “Is Cockney Rhyming Slang Brown ...

The East End’s Eliza Doolittles have long since moved away–not to rural Hertford, Hereford and Hampshire, mind you, but to suburban Essex and Kent, where their cockney rhyming slang is hardly heard.

The pearly king of Woolwich and his mouse turned heads at the Modern Cockney Festival The Modern Cockney Festival concluded recently with the dialect being officially recognised as a community ...

The unofficial ‘Speak Cockney Day’ is just around the corner, meaning you don’t have much time to brush up on your London slang. Aligning with the Modern Cockney Festival, which takes place throughout ...

Amanda Cole received funding from the University of Essex Doctoral Scholarship as well as ESSEXLab seedcorn funding. Or maybe you think of Dame Barbara Windsor, who died on December 9. She was a ...

The Cockney accent is synonymous with east London legends like Barbara Windsor and Michael Caine. But even though you might not Adam and Eve it, researchers say that the dialect has now become 'one of ...

‘People I meet travelling often marvel that they’ve never actually met a real cockney, because I wasn’t what they were expecting’ (Getty) My best friend’s mother (who is also a cockney) told me when ...

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Everyone knows NZ is a pie-loving nation, which is why the current ‘cockney cuisine’ movement in London should be right up our own street, writes Demi Perera Firstly, what is a Cockney? “My father is ...

If you happened to catch hugely popular British DJ, Pete Tong, at Public Works on Saturday night, you might have wondered why he'd called the night “All Gone Pete Tong”. While the term means nothing ...