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The term Cockney has both geographical and linguistic associations. Geographically and culturally, it often refers to working class London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
ers, particularly those in the East End
East End of London

The East End of London, known locally as the East End, is the area of London, England, east of the medieval walled City of London and north of the River Thames, although it is not defined by universally accepted formal boundaries....
. Linguistically, it refers to the form of English spoken by this group.

According to traditional definition, a "true" Cockney is someone born within earshot of the Bow Bells, i.e.






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The term Cockney has both geographical and linguistic associations. Geographically and culturally, it often refers to working class London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
ers, particularly those in the East End
East End of London

The East End of London, known locally as the East End, is the area of London, England, east of the medieval walled City of London and north of the River Thames, although it is not defined by universally accepted formal boundaries....
. Linguistically, it refers to the form of English spoken by this group.

According to traditional definition, a "true" Cockney is someone born within earshot of the Bow Bells, i.e. the bells of St. Mary-le-Bow church in Cheapside
Cheapside

Cheapside is a street in Cheap of the City of London that links Newgate with the junction of Queen Victoria Street, Cornhill, London, Threadneedle Street, Princes Street, Lombard Street, London and King William Street ....
 in the City of London
City of London

The City of London is a geographically small city status in the United Kingdom within Greater London, England. It is the historic core of London around which, along with Westminster, the modern conurbation grew....
 (which is not itself in the East End
East End of London

The East End of London, known locally as the East End, is the area of London, England, east of the medieval walled City of London and north of the River Thames, although it is not defined by universally accepted formal boundaries....
). However, the bells were silent from the outbreak of World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
 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
City of London

The City of London is a geographically small city status in the United Kingdom within Greater London, England. It is the historic core of London around which, along with Westminster, the modern conurbation grew....
, Clerkenwell
Clerkenwell

Clerkenwell is an area of central London in the London Borough of Islington. Clerkenwell was once known as London's "Little Italy" due to its extensive Italian population from the 1850s to the 1960s....
, Finsbury
Finsbury

Finsbury is a small district in the south of the London Borough of Islington and north of the City of London....
, Shoreditch
Shoreditch

Shoreditch is an area of London within the London Borough of Hackney. It is a built-up part of the inner city immediately to the north of the City of London, located north east of Charing Cross....
, Hoxton
Hoxton

Hoxton is an area in the London Borough of Hackney, immediately north of the financial district of the City of London. The area of Hoxton is bordered by Regents Canal on the north side, Wharf Road and City Road on the west, Old Street on the south, and Kingsland Road on the east....
, Stepney
Stepney

Stepney is an inner-city district in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is located east north-east of Charing Cross and forms part of the East End of London....
, Bethnal Green
Bethnal Green

Bethnal Green is an area in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, in the East End of London. Bethnal Green is located north east of Charing Cross....
, Limehouse
Limehouse

Limehouse is a place in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is on the northern bank of the River Thames opposite Rotherhithe and between Ratcliff to the west and Millwall to the east....
, Mile End
Mile End

Mile End is an area of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in East London, England, England. Mile End is east north-east of Charing Cross....
, Wapping
Wapping

Wapping is a place in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets which forms part of the London Docklands to the east of the City of London. It is situated between the north bank of the River Thames and the ancient thoroughfare simply called The Highway....
, Whitechapel
Whitechapel

Whitechapel is a built-up inner city district in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, England. It is located east of Charing Cross and roughly bounded by the Bishopsgate thoroughfare on the west, Hanbury Street on the north, Brady Street and Cavell Street on the east and Commercial Road on the south....
, Shadwell
Shadwell

Shadwell is an inner-city district situated within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets located on the north bank of the Thames between Wapping to the west and Limehouse to the east....
, Bermondsey
Bermondsey

Bermondsey is an area in London on the south bank of the river Thames, and is part of the London Borough of Southwark. To the west lies Southwark, to the east Rotherhithe, and to the south, Walworth, London....
, Rotherhithe
Rotherhithe

Rotherhithe is a district of central SE16 London in the London Borough of Southwark. It is located on a peninsula on the south bank of the Thames, facing Wapping and the Isle of Dogs on the north bank, and is a part of the London Docklands area....
, Surrey Quays
Surrey Quays

Surrey Quays is a name given to a largely residential area of Rotherhithe in south-east London, occupied until 1970 by the Surrey Commercial Docks....
 and The Borough, although according to the legend of Dick Whittington the bells could also be heard from as far away as Highgate
Highgate

Highgate is a village in North London on the north-eastern corner of Hampstead Heath. Highgate rises to an altitude of at Highgate Wood and at North Hill....
. The association with Cockney and the East End in the public imagination may be due to many people assuming that Bow Bells are to be found in the district of Bow
Bow, London

Bow is an area of East London, England, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is a built-up, mostly residential district located east of Charing Cross, and is a part of the East End of London....
, rather than the lesser known St Mary-le-Bow church.

A traditional costume associated with Cockneys is that of the pearly King (or pearly Queen) worn by London costermonger
Costermonger

A costermonger is a term that originally referred to a street seller of fruit and vegetables in Britain, but is now used to describe street vendors in general....
s who sewed thousands of pearl buttons onto their clothing in elaborate patterns.
Pearlykingandqueen

Etymology

The term was used to describe those born within earshot of the Bow Bells as early as 1600, when Samuel Rowlands
Samuel Rowlands

Samuel Rowlands , England author of pamphlets in prose and verse, which reflect the follies and humours of the lower middle-class life of his time, seems to have had no contemporary literary reputation; but his work throws considerable light on the social London of his day....
, in his satire
Satire

Satire is often strictly defined as a literary genre; although, in practice, it is also found in the graphic arts and performing arts. In satire, human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of ridicule, derision, burlesque, irony, or other methods, ideally with the intent to bring about improv...
 The Letting of Humours Blood in the Head-Vaine, referred to 'a Bowe-bell Cockney'. Traveller and writer Fynes Moryson
Fynes Moryson

Fynes Moryson , 1566 – 12 Feb 1630, English traveller and writer, spent most of the decade of the 1590s travelling on the European continent and the eastern Mediterranean lands....
 stated in his work An Itinerary that "Londoners, and all within the sound of Bow Bells, are in reproach called Cockneys." John Minsheu
John Minsheu

John Minsheu was an English Linguistics and lexicographer. He was born and died in London. Little is known about his life. He published some of the earliest dictionaries and grammars of the Spanish language for speakers of English....
 (or Minshew) was the first lexicographer to define the word in this sense, in his Ductor in Linguas (1617), where he referred to 'A Cockney or Cockny, applied only to one born within the sound of Bow bell, that is in the City of London'. However, the etymologies
Etymology

Etymology is the study of the roots and history of words; and how their form and meaning have changed over time.In languages with a long detailed history, etymology makes use of philology, the study of how words change from culture to culture over time....
 he gave (from 'cock' and 'neigh', or from Latin incoctus, raw) were just guesses, and the OED
Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary , published by the Oxford University Press , is a comprehensive dictionary of the English language. Two fully-bound print editions of the OED have been published under its current name, in 1928 and 1989; as of December 2008 the dictionary's current editors have completed a quarter of the third edition....
 later authoritatively explained the term as originating from cock and egg (Middle English 'cokeney' < 'coken' + 'ey', lit. cocks' egg), meaning first a misshapen egg (1362), then a person ignorant of country ways (1521), then the senses mentioned above.

Francis Grose
Francis Grose

Francis Grose , born at Greenford in Middlesex, antiquary, drawing, and lexicographer, of Switzerland extraction , was Richmond Herald from 1755 to 1763....
's A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1785) derives the term from the following story:
A citizen of London, being in the country, and hearing a horse neigh, exclaimed, Lord! how that horse laughs! A by-stander telling him that noise was called Neighing, the next morning, when the cock crowed, the citizen to shew he had not forgot what was told him, cried out, Do you hear how the Cock Neighs?


An alternative derivation of the word can be found in Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary
Webster's Dictionary

Webster's Dictionary is the name given to a common type of English language dictionary in the United States. The name is derived from lexicographer Noah Webster and has become a genericized trademark for this type of dictionary....
: London was referred to by the Normans as the "Land of Sugar Cake" (Old French: pais de cocaigne
Cockaigne

Cockaigne or Cockayne is a mythical medieval Mythical place, an imaginary place of extreme luxury and ease where physical comforts and pleasures are always immediately at hand and where the harshness of medieval peasant life does not exist....
), an imaginary land of idleness and luxury. A humorous appellation, the word "Cocaigne" referred to all of London and its suburbs, and over time had a number of spellings: Cocagne, Cockayne and, in Middle English
Middle English

Middle English is the name given by historical linguistics to the diverse forms of the English language spoken between the Norman conquest of England of 1066 and about 1470, when the #Chancery Standard, a form of London-based English, began to become widespread, a process aided by the introduction of the printing press into England by William...
, Cocknay and Cockney. The latter two spellings could be used to refer to both pampered children, and residents of London, and to pamper or spoil a child was 'to cocker' him. (See, for example, John Locke
John Locke

John Locke was an English philosopher. Locke is considered the first of the British Empiricism, but is equally important to social contract theory....
, "...that most children's constitutions are either spoiled or at least harmed, by cockering and tenderness." from Some Thoughts Concerning Education, 1693)

Cockney area


The region in which "Cockneys" reside has changed over time, and is no longer the whole of London. As mentioned in the introduction, the traditional definition is that in order to be a Cockney, one must have been born within earshot of the Bow Bells. However, the church of St. Mary-le-Bow was destroyed in 1666 by the Great Fire of London
Great Fire of London

The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through the central parts of London, England, from Sunday, 2 September to Wednesday, 5 September 1666....
 and rebuilt by Sir Christopher Wren. After the bells were destroyed again in 1941 in The Blitz
The Blitz

The Blitz was the sustained bombing of United Kingdom by Nazi Germany between 7 September 1940 and 10 May 1941, in World War II. While the "Blitz" hit many towns and cities across the country, it began with the bombing of London for 57 consecutive nights ....
 of World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
, and before they were replaced in 1961, there was a period when by this definition no 'Bow-bell' Cockneys could be born. The use of such a literal definition produces other problems, since the area around the church is no longer residential and the noise of the area makes it unlikely that many people would be born within earshot of the bells anymore.

A study was carried by the city in 2000 to see how far the Bow Bells could be heard, and it was estimated that the bells would have been heard six miles to the east, five miles to the north, three miles to the south, and four miles to the west.

Thus while all East Enders are Cockneys, not all Cockneys are East Enders. The traditional core neighbourhoods of the East End
East End of London

The East End of London, known locally as the East End, is the area of London, England, east of the medieval walled City of London and north of the River Thames, although it is not defined by universally accepted formal boundaries....
 are Bethnal Green
Bethnal Green

Bethnal Green is an area in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, in the East End of London. Bethnal Green is located north east of Charing Cross....
, Whitechapel
Whitechapel

Whitechapel is a built-up inner city district in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, England. It is located east of Charing Cross and roughly bounded by the Bishopsgate thoroughfare on the west, Hanbury Street on the north, Brady Street and Cavell Street on the east and Commercial Road on the south....
, Spitalfields
Spitalfields

Spitalfields is an area in the London borough of London Borough of Tower Hamlets, in the East End of London of London, near to Liverpool Street station and Brick Lane....
, Stepney
Stepney

Stepney is an inner-city district in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is located east north-east of Charing Cross and forms part of the East End of London....
, Wapping
Wapping

Wapping is a place in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets which forms part of the London Docklands to the east of the City of London. It is situated between the north bank of the River Thames and the ancient thoroughfare simply called The Highway....
, Limehouse
Limehouse

Limehouse is a place in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is on the northern bank of the River Thames opposite Rotherhithe and between Ratcliff to the west and Millwall to the east....
, Poplar
Poplar, London

Poplar is an area of the East End of London in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Poplar is about east of Charing Cross....
, Millwall
Millwall

Millwall is an area in London, on the western side of the Isle of Dogs, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It lies to the south of the developments at West India Docks, including Canary Wharf....
, Hackney
Hackney Central

Hackney Central is the central district of the London Borough of Hackney in East London, England. It comprises the area roughly surrounding, and extending north from Mare Street....
, Shoreditch
Shoreditch

Shoreditch is an area of London within the London Borough of Hackney. It is a built-up part of the inner city immediately to the north of the City of London, located north east of Charing Cross....
, Bow
Bow, London

Bow is an area of East London, England, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is a built-up, mostly residential district located east of Charing Cross, and is a part of the East End of London....
 and Mile End
Mile End

Mile End is an area of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in East London, England, England. Mile End is east north-east of Charing Cross....
. The area gradually expanded to include East Ham
East Ham

East Ham is a place in the London Borough of Newham. It is a built-up district located 8 miles east north-east of Charing Cross....
, Stratford
Stratford, London

Stratford, historically Stratford Langthorne, is a place in the London Borough of Newham in East London, England. It will be the primary location of the 2012 Summer Olympics....
, West Ham
West Ham

West Ham is a district in the London Borough of Newham, in East London, England, England, located east of Charing Cross.From 1889 to 1965 it formed part of the County Borough of West Ham....
 and Plaistow
Plaistow, Newham

Plaistow is a place in the London Borough of Newham in East London, England. It formed part of the County Borough of West Ham in Essex until 1965....
 as more land was built upon.

Migration of Cockneys has also led to migration of the dialect. Ever since the building of the Becontree
Becontree

Becontree is a place in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham in East London, England, east north-east of Charing Cross....
 housing estate, the Barking & Dagenham area has spoken Cockney. As Chatham Dockyard expanded during the 18th century, large numbers of workers were relocated from the dockland areas of London, bringing with them a "Cockney" accent and vocabulary. Within a short period this famously distinguished Chatham from the neighbouring areas, including the City of Rochester, which had the traditional Kentish accent.

In Essex, towns that mostly grew up from post-war migration out of London (e.g. Basildon
Basildon

Basildon is located in the Basildon of the county of Essex, England.It lies east of London and south of the county town of Chelmsford. Nearby towns include Billericay to the north, Wickford northeast, and South Benfleet to the east....
 and Harlow
Harlow

Harlow is a new town and local government district in Essex, England. It is located in the west of the county and on the border with Hertfordshire, on the River Stort....
) often have a strong Cockney influence on local speech. However, the early dialect researcher Alexander John Ellis
Alexander John Ellis

Alexander John Ellis was an England mathematician and philology. He changed his name from his father's name Sharpe to his mother's maiden name Ellis in 1825, based on a condition for receiving significant financial support from a relative on his mother's side....
 believed that Cockney developed due to the influence of Essex dialect on London speech. In recent years, there has been a move away from Cockney in the inner-city areas of London towards Multicultural London English
Jafaican

Multicultural London English , colloquially called Blockney or Jafaican, is a dialect of English language that emerged in the late 20th century....
 whereas the eastern outskirts of Greater London have more speakers of the traditional Cockney dialect.

Migration and evolution


Today, certain elements of Cockney English are declining in usage within the area it is most associated with
East End of London

The East End of London, known locally as the East End, is the area of London, England, east of the medieval walled City of London and north of the River Thames, although it is not defined by universally accepted formal boundaries....
, displaced by a Jamaican Creole
Jamaican Creole

Jamaican Patois, known locally as Patois or simply Jamaican, is an English language?Languages of Africa creole language spoken primarily in Jamaica and the Jamaican diaspora....
-influenced variety gaining popularity amongst young Londoners (sometimes referred to as "Jafaican
Jafaican

Multicultural London English , colloquially called Blockney or Jafaican, is a dialect of English language that emerged in the late 20th century....
" or "Multicultural London English"), particularly, though far from exclusively, those of Afro-Caribbean
British African-Caribbean community

The British African Caribbean community are residents of the United Kingdom who are of British West Indies background and whose ancestors were Indigenous peoples to Africa....
 descent. Nevertheless, the glottal stop, double negatives, and the vocalization of the dark L (and other features of traditional Cockney speech), along with some rhyming slang terms are still in common usage. As cockneys have moved out of London, they have often taken their dialect with them. There may actually be more speakers of the Cockney dialect in Dagenham than in Whitechapel, even though the former is not in the traditional Cockney area.

Cockney speech


Cockney speakers have a distinctive accent and dialect, and frequently use rhyming slang. The Survey of English Dialects
Survey of English Dialects

The Survey of English Dialects was undertaken between 1950 and 1961 under the direction of Professor Harold Orton of the English department of the University of Leeds....
 took a recording from a long-time resident of Hackney.

John Camden Hotten, in his Slang Dictionary of 1859 makes reference to "their use of a peculiar slang language" when describing the costermonger
Costermonger

A costermonger is a term that originally referred to a street seller of fruit and vegetables in Britain, but is now used to describe street vendors in general....
s of London's East End. In terms of other slang, there are also several borrowings from Yiddish, including kosher (originally Hebrew, via Yiddish, meaning legitimate) and shtumm ( originally German, via Yiddish, meaning quiet), as well as Romany
Romani language

Romani or Romany, Gypsy or Gipsy is the language of the Romani people. It is an Indo-Aryan language, sometimes included in either the "Central Indo-Aryan" or the "Northwest Indo-Aryan languages" group, sometimes treated as a branch of its own....
, for example wonga (meaning money, from the Romany "wanga" meaning coal), and cushty (from the Romany kushtipen, meaning good). A fake Cockney accent is sometimes called 'Mockney
Mockney

In British English, the term mockney has come to be used, predominantly in the media, to describe those who present themselves as Cockneys with the intention of gaining popular credibility....
'.

Typical features


  • H-dropping
  • Broad is used when the letter a precedes /f/, /s/, /?/ and sometimes /nd/ (in words such as bath, path, demand, etc.), which originated in London but has now spread across the south-east and into Received Pronunciation
    Received Pronunciation

    Received Pronunciation is a form of pronunciation of the English language which has long been perceived as uniquely prestigious amongst British Accent ....
    . However, there are exceptions to this rule; for example, the word maths or masculine.
  • T-glottalisation
    T-glottalization

    T-glottalization is a process that occurs for many English language speakers, that causes the phoneme to be pronounced as the glottal stop in certain positions....
    : Use of the glottal stop as an allophone of in various positions, including after a stressed syllable. may also be flapped intervocalically.
    • This feature results in Cockney being often mentioned in textbooks about Semitic languages while explaining how to pronounce the glottal stop
      Glottal stop

      The glottal stop, or more fully, the voiceless glottal plosive, is a type of consonantal sound which is used in many Speech communication languages....
      .
  • Glottal stops also occur, albeit less frequently for and , and occasionally for mid-word consonants. For example, Richard Whiteing
    Richard Whiteing

    Richard Whiteing , England author and journalist, was born in London, the son of Mary Lander and William Whiteing, a civil servant employed as an Inland Revenue Officer....
     spelt "Hyde Park" as Hy' Par' . Like and light can be homophones. "Clapham" can be said as Cla'am.
  • Loss of dental fricatives:
  • becomes in all environments. "maths".
  • becomes in all environments except word-initially when it is . "bother," "they."
  • Diphthong alterations:
  • ? : "bait"
  • ? : "coat"
  • ? : "bite"
  • may be : "town"
  • Other vowel differences include
    • ? or : "tan"
    • may be , , or before certain voiced consonants "says"
    • ?
    • ? when in non-final position
    • ? : "beet"
    • ? or : "boot"
  • Vocalisation of dark L
    L-vocalization

    In linguistics, l-vocalization is a process by which an sound is replaced by a vowel or semivowel sound. This happens most often to ....
    , hence for Millwall
    Millwall

    Millwall is an area in London, on the western side of the Isle of Dogs, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It lies to the south of the developments at West India Docks, including Canary Wharf....
    . The actual realization of a vocalized is influenced by surrounding vowels and it may be realized as , or .
  • Cockney has been occasionally described as replacing with . For example, thwee instead of three, fwasty instead of frosty. Peter Wright, a Survey of English Dialects
    Survey of English Dialects

    The Survey of English Dialects was undertaken between 1950 and 1961 under the direction of Professor Harold Orton of the English department of the University of Leeds....
     fieldworker, concluded that this was not a universal feature of Cockneys but that it was more common to hear this in the London area than anywhere else in Britain. This description may also be a result of mishearing the labiodental R
    R-labialization

    R-labialization is a process occurring in Cockney speech where the phoneme is realized as a labiodental approximant in contrast to an alveolar approximant ....
     as /w/, when it is still a distinct phoneme in Cockney.
  • As with many urban dialects, Cockney is non-rhotic. A final -er is often pronounced as . Words such as car, far, park, etc. can have an open .
  • An unstressed final -ow is pronounced . This is common to most traditional, Southern English dialects except for those in the West Country
    West Country

    The West Country is an informal term for the area of south western England roughly corresponding to the modern South West England government region....
    .
  • Grammatical features:
    • Use of me instead of my, for example, "At's me book you got 'ere ". Cannot be used when "my" is emphasised (i.e., "At's my book you got 'ere" (and not "his")).
    • Use of ain't instead of isn't, am not, are not, has not, and have not
  • Use of double negatives, for example "I didn't see nothing."
Most of the features mentioned above have, in recent years, partly spread into more general south-eastern speech, giving the accent called Estuary English
Estuary English

Estuary English is a name given to the dialect of English language widely spoken in South East England and the East of England; especially along the River Thames and Thames Estuary, which is where the two regions meet....
; an Estuary speaker will use some but not all of the Cockney sounds.

Spread of Cockney English


Scotland

Studies have indicated that working-class adolescents in areas such as Glasgow
Glasgow

Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and List of largest United Kingdom settlements by population in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's Scottish Lowlands....
 have begun to use certain aspects of Cockney and other Anglicism
Anglicism

An anglicism, as most often defined, is a word borrowed from English language into another language. Speakers of the recipient language usually consider an anglicism to be substandard or undesirable ....
s in their speech , inflitrating the traditional Glasgow patter
Glasgow patter

Glasgow Patter or Glaswegian is a dialect spoken in and around Glasgow, Scotland. Glasgow patter has evolved among the working classes, Ireland immigrants and passing seamen in the dockyards....
. For example, TH-fronting is commonly found, and typical Scottish
Scottish English

Scottish English refers to the Variety of English language spoken in Scotland. It may or may not include Scots language depending on the observer....
 features such as the postvocalic /r/ are reduced.. Researches suggest the use of English speech characteristics is likely the influence of London and South East England
South East England

South East England is one of the nine official regions of England, designated in 1994 and adopted for statistical purposes in 1999. Its boundaries include Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey and West Sussex....
 accents featuring heavily on television.

Cockney characters in drama, fiction and poetry


A television advertisement for Heineken
Heineken Pilsener

Heineken is a Nederland 5% Alcohol by volume pale lager, made by Heineken International since 1873. It is the flagship product of the company and is made of purification water, malted barley, hops, and yeast....
 beer in the 1980s showed a Sloane
Sloane Ranger

The term Sloane Ranger refers to the young, upper class and upper-middle-class men and women living in SW postcode area. The word play term combines "Sloane Square", the fashionable and wealthy London area associated most in the public imagination with "Sloanes", and the television cowboy character "The Lone Ranger"....
 woman receiving elocution lessons in Cockney, parodying My Fair Lady
My Fair Lady

My Fair Lady is a musical theater based upon George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe....
. In , she was being taught to say "The wa'er in Majorca don' taste like wot it ough' a", but could only manage a rendition in Received Pronunciation
Received Pronunciation

Received Pronunciation is a form of pronunciation of the English language which has long been perceived as uniquely prestigious amongst British Accent ....
 of "The water in Majorca doesn't taste quite how it should" (until, of course, she drank the beer).

More recently, the Geico
GEICO

The Government Employees Insurance Company, usually known by the acronym GEICO, is an American auto insurance company. GEICO is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway and, as of 2007, provided coverage for more than 10 million motor cars, trucks and other motor vehicles owned by more than 9 million insurance contract holders....
 automobile insurance company has used a gecko lizard in its television advertising campaign that speaks in a Cockney accent. The character is voiced by Jake Wood
Jake Wood

Jake Dylan Wood is an English actor, best known for playing Max Branning on the "EastEnders" and being the current voice of the Geico_gecko#The_GEICO_gecko....
.

  • The Hitcher from, The Mighty Boosh
    The Mighty Boosh

    The Mighty Boosh, colloquially referred to as The Boosh, is the collective name for the creators of the British comedy written by and starring comedians Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding....
     on BBC3
  • Spike, or William the Bloody in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel
    Ángel

    ?ngel is the third single from Belinda Peregr?n's debut album: Belinda. It was a massive hit in Mexico and an international hit for Belinda....
  • The Crow Brothers from the Cosgrove Hall animated series, Count Duckula
    Count Duckula

    Count Duckula is a British animated television series created by United Kingdom studio Cosgrove Hall, and a spin-off from DangerMouse, a show in which the Count Duckula character was a recurring villain....
  • The cast of the movie Human Traffic (1999)
  • Albert and Harold Steptoe in BBCs Steptoe and Son
    Steptoe and Son

    Steptoe and Son is a British sitcom written by Galton and Simpson about two rag and bone man living in Oil Drum Lane, a fictional street in Shepherd's Bush, London....
  • Terry Tibbs, the used-car salesman in Fonejacker
    Fonejacker

    Fonejacker is a British Academy Television Awards award-winning British comedy programme broadcast on Channel 4 featuring a series of prank calls involving a number of different characters performed by British Iranian television actor Kayvan Novak....
  • Sam Weller from Charles Dickens
    Charles Dickens

    Charles John Huffam Dickens, Royal Society of Arts , pen-name "Boz", was the most popular English people novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous Reform movement....
    's serialized novel The Pickwick Papers
    The Pickwick Papers

    The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, better known as The Pickwick Papers, is the first novel by Charles Dickens. The illustrator Robert Seymour claimed that the idea for the novel was originally his; however, in his preface to the 1867 edition, Dickens strenuously denied any specific input, writing that "Mr Seymour never...
  • The Artful Dodger
    The Artful Dodger

    File:Dodger introduces Oliver to Fagin by Cruikshank .jpgFile:Dodger.jpegJack Dawkins, better known as the Artful Dodger, is a character in the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist....
     from the Charles Dickens
    Charles Dickens

    Charles John Huffam Dickens, Royal Society of Arts , pen-name "Boz", was the most popular English people novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous Reform movement....
     novel Oliver Twist
    Oliver Twist

    Oliver Twist is Charles Dickens second novel. The book was originally published in Bentley's Miscellany as a Serial , in monthly installments that began appearing in the month of February 1837 and continued through April 1839, originally intended to form part of Dickens' serial The Mudfog Papers....
  • The children in the movie Bedknobs and Broomsticks
    Bedknobs and Broomsticks

    Bedknobs and Broomsticks is a 1971 musical film produced by Walt Disney Productions which combines live action and animation; it premiered on October 7 1971....
  • Bert in the movie Mary Poppins
    Mary Poppins

    Mary Poppins is a series of children's literature written by P.L. Travers and originally illustrated by Mary Shepard. The books centre on a mysterious, vain and acerbic magic England nanny, Mary Poppins ....
     (although it has to be said that Dick van Dyke's rendition of the Cockney accent is notoriously bad.)
  • Characters in A Clockwork Orange
    A Clockwork Orange

    A Clockwork Orange is a dystopian novel novel by Anthony Burgess.The title is taken from an old Cockney expression, "as queer as a clockwork orange", and alludes to the prevention of the main character's exercise of his free will through the use of a classical conditioning technique....
  • Colleen the London collie
    Collie

    A collie is a distinctive type of herding dog, ultimately originating in Great Britain, especially in the upland areas of the north and west....
     dog on the cartoon Road Rovers
    Road Rovers

    Road Rovers was an United States animated television series written and produced by Tom Ruegger that premiered on Kids' WB on September 2, 1996....
  • Miss Shirley Brahms (Wendy Richard
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    ) and Mr. Harman (Arthur English
    Arthur English

    Arthur Leslie Norman English was an England comedian from the music hall tradition.English was born in Aldershot, Hampshire. After serving in the army in World War II, reaching the rank of sergeant, English worked as a painter and decorator in his native town....
    ) from the comedy series Are You Being Served?
    Are You Being Served?

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  • Rudyard Kipling's "The Widow at Windsor
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    ". Also, the character Ortheris, one of the "Soldiers Three": Ortheris, Mulvaney and Learoyd (Mulvaney is Irish and Learoyd is from Yorkshire).
  • Jerry Cruncher in Charles Dickens
    Charles Dickens

    Charles John Huffam Dickens, Royal Society of Arts , pen-name "Boz", was the most popular English people novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous Reform movement....
    ' A Tale of Two Cities
    A Tale of Two Cities

    A Tale of Two Cities is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. It depicts the plight of the French proletariat under the brutal oppression of the France aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, and the corresponding savage brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries t...
  • Eliza Doolittle in George Bernard Shaw
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    's Pygmalion
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     (see also My Fair Lady
    My Fair Lady

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    )
  • Gavroche Thenardier in English productions of the musical of Les Miserables
    Les Misérables

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     (as an equivalent of Paris criminal Argot)
  • Fevvers in Angela Carter
    Angela Carter

    Angela Carter was an England novelist and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism and science fiction works....
    's novel Nights at the Circus
    Nights at the Circus

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  • William Somerset Maugham's novel Liza of Lambeth
    Liza of Lambeth

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  • "The Lambeth Walk
    The Lambeth Walk

    "The Lambeth Walk" is a song from the 1937 musical theater Me and My Girl . The song takes its name from a local street once notable for its street market and working class culture in Lambeth, an area of London, England....
    " song and associated dance
  • Me and My Girl
    Me and My Girl

    Me and My Girl is a musical play with book and lyrics by Douglas Furber and L. Arthur Rose and music by Noel Gay. It takes place in the late 1930s in Hampshire, Mayfair, and Lambeth....
     (musical)
  • EastEnders
    EastEnders

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     soap opera
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  • Wayne Winston Norris, the chirpy Cockney carpenter in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
    Auf Wiedersehen, Pet

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  • Private Joe Walker
    Private Joe Walker

    Private Joe Walker is a fictional black market spiv and British Home Guard platoon member portrayed by actor James Beck on the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army....
    , the infamous Cockney spiv from Dad's Army
    Dad's Army

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  • Guy Ritchie
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    Guy Stuart Ritchie is an England screenwriter and filmmaker....
     films, such as Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
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  • Eliza Pinchley in Family Guy
    Family Guy

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     spoof of My Fair Lady
    My Fair Lady

    My Fair Lady is a musical theater based upon George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe....
  • Mrs. Lovett, Tobias Ragg and the Beggar Woman in Stephen Sondheim
    Stephen Sondheim

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    's Sweeney Todd
    Sweeney Todd

    Sweeney Todd is a character who first appeared as the protagonist and main villain of a penny dreadful serial entitled The String of Pearls ....
     (original Broadway version, in the 2007 film adaptation, virtually everybody speaks with one, excepting, of course, Pirelli, Beadle, and Turpin)
  • Basher Tarr in the movie Ocean's Eleven
    Ocean's Eleven (2001 film)

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  • Danny Blue
    Danny Blue (Hustle)

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     in the BBC TV series Hustle
    Hustle (TV series)

    Hustle is a British television comedy-drama series made by Kudos for BBC One in the United Kingdom. Created by Tony Jordan and first broadcast in 2004, the series follows a group of con artists who specialise in "long cons" – extended deceptions which require greater commitment, but which return a higher reward than simple confiden...
  • Wilson in the movie The Limey
    The Limey

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  • In the children's television series
    Children's television series

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     TUGS
    TUGS

    TUGS is a United Kingdom children's television series, first broadcast in 1988. It was created by the producers of Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends, Robert D....
    , Ten Cents
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     speaks with a Cockney accent.
  • In the video game Fable
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    Fable is an role playing game video game for Xbox, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows platforms. It was developed by Big Blue Box, a satellite developer of Lionhead Studios, and was published by Microsoft....
    , many of the townsfolk and characters speak with a Cockney accent.
  • Most characters in the musical and movie-musical Oliver!
    Oliver!

    Oliver! is a United Kingdom Musical theater, with music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. The musical is loosely based upon the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens....
  • The characters in the Thames Television show Minder
    Minder (TV series)

    Minder is a British comedy-drama about the London Organized crime. Initially produced by Verity Lambert, it was made by Euston Films, a subsidiary of Thames Television and shown on ITV....
     made liberal use of Cockney slang, and the show brought terms such as porkies into common use
  • Sid, the caretaker in the hit British
    United Kingdom

    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
     comedy series Mind Your Language
    Mind Your Language

    Mind Your Language is a British sitcom, that premiered on ITV in late 1977. Produced by LWT and directed by Stuart Allen, it is set in a school for adult students in London, focusing on the English as an additional language class taught by Mr....
  • Rose Tyler
    Rose Tyler

    Rose Tyler is a fictional character played by Billie Piper in the long-running United Kingdom science fiction on television series Doctor Who, and was created by series producer Russell T Davies....
    , played by Billie Piper
    Billie Piper

    Billie Paul Piper is an English singer and actress.She began her career as a pop music singer when she was a teenager but is now best known for portraying Rose Tyler, companion to Doctor in the television series Doctor Who from 2005 to 2006, a role she reprised in 2008....
    , in Doctor Who
    Doctor Who

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  • Allan-a-Dale
    Robin Hood (2006 TV series) characters

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    , played by Joe Armstrong
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     in Robin Hood
    Robin Hood (BBC TV series)

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  • Mungojerrie
    Mungojerrie

    Mungojerrie is a character in T. S. Eliot's book, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats which was adapted into the musical Cats.Mungojerrie and his partner in crime, Rumpleteazer, specialize in petty theft and mischief....
     and Rumpleteazer
    Rumpleteazer

    Rumpleteazer is a character in T. S. Eliot's book Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cats ....
     in T. S. Eliot
    T. S. Eliot

    'Thomas Stearns Eliot', Order of Merit , was a poet, dramatist, and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Among his most famous writings are the poems The Love Song of J....
    's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
    Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

    Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats is a collection of whimsical poems by T. S. Eliot about Cat psychology and sociology. Its contents are widely known as the basis for the record-setting Musical theatre Cats ....
     and Andrew Lloyd Webber
    Andrew Lloyd Webber

    Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is an England composer of musical theatre, the elder son of William Lloyd Webber and also the brother of the renowned cellist Julian Lloyd Webber....
    's musical Cats
    Cats (musical)

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  • Most characters in the movie Green Street Hooligans
  • Lucy in Jekyll and Hyde the Musical
  • Leo Matlock, captain of Athletico Warwick FC
  • Nigel Wilson, 'Nigey Noise' DJ on RAW radio station.
  • Most characters in the movie To Sir, with Love
    To Sir, with Love

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  • Most characters in Harold Pinter
    Harold Pinter

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    's early plays
  • Most characters in the plays and fiction of Philip Ridley
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  • Stan Shunpike in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

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  • Yangus in Dragon Quest VIII
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  • The Orks
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     and Imperial Guard
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     in the Warhammer 40,000
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     universe (and in the Dawn of War
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  • The Landlady and her Boarders in Lucky Stiff
    Lucky Stiff

    Lucky Stiff is a farcical musical theater. It was the first collaboration for the musical theater team of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty ....
    , a musical comedy
  • Death of Inhaling Hatmaking Chemicals in Irregular Webcomic!
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  • Corporal Peter Newkirk (played by Richard Dawson
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    ) in Hogan's Heroes
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  • Sadie in National Lampoon's Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj
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  • Roman in Armed and Dangerous
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  • Pim Scutney and Rog Gobshire of Team Britain in the movie Beerfest
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  • Almost all characters in Nick Love's films The Football Factory and The Business
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  • Mordor Orcs in Peter Jackson
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    's film trilogy The Lord of the Rings
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  • Sam, Mary, and other minor characters in John Fowles
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    '     The French Lieutenant's Woman
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  • Mingy, Oprah Winfrey
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    's sentient
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     vagina, in the     South Park
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     episode "A Million Little Fibers
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    ".
  • Lee-Hom Wang
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    's song, "Cockney Girl"
  • Badger
    List of minor characters in the Firefly universe

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    , from the television series     Firefly
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  • Jacky Faber in the book series Bloody Jack.
  • Spitfire, in the English dub of the anime Air Gear
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    .
  • Most characters in the BBC's Only Fools and Horses
    Only Fools and Horses

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    .
  • Rodney Skinner in the movie League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
  • Sergeant Dale Smith ('Smithy') from The Bill
    The Bill

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  • Mortimer in the Fantasticks
    The Fantasticks

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  • Mrs. Potts in Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)
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  • Baldrick
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     from the BlackAdder
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     series
  • Tim-Tom Moppet from The Venture Bros.
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  • Cheapside in the Doctor Dolittle
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     books
  • The three trolls in 'Roast Mutton', the second chapter of J. R. R. Tolkien
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    's     The Hobbit
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  • Mudge the otter from Alan Dean Foster's Spellsinger series.
  • Pandora from the Skins series


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  • David Beckham
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  • Marc Bolan
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  • Bernard Bresslaw
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     (actor, born in Stepney
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  • Eric Bristow
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    Max Bygraves Officer of the Order of the British Empire is an English people singer-songwriter. He appeared on his own television shows, sometimes performing comedy sketches between songs....
     (Singer, songwriter and comedian, born in Rotherhithe
    Rotherhithe

    Rotherhithe is a district of central SE16 London in the London Borough of Southwark. It is located on a peninsula on the south bank of the Thames, facing Wapping and the Isle of Dogs on the north bank, and is a part of the London Docklands area....
    )
  • Michael Caine
    Michael Caine

    Sir Michael Caine Order of the British Empire , is a two-time Academy Award and multiple BAFTA Award and Golden Globe winning England film actor who has appeared in more than one hundred films....
     (Hollywood Film Star, born in Rotherhithe
    Rotherhithe

    Rotherhithe is a district of central SE16 London in the London Borough of Southwark. It is located on a peninsula on the south bank of the Thames, facing Wapping and the Isle of Dogs on the north bank, and is a part of the London Docklands area....
    )
  • George Carey
    George Carey

    George Leonard Carey, Baron Carey of Clifton Privy Council of the United Kingdom Fellowship of King's College London was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1991 to 2002....
     (archbishop, born in Bow
    Bow, London

    Bow is an area of East London, England, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is a built-up, mostly residential district located east of Charing Cross, and is a part of the East End of London....
    )
  • Charlie Chaplin
    Charlie Chaplin

    Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr. Order of the British Empire , better known as Charlie Chaplin, was an Academy Award-winning England comedy film actor and filmmaker....
     (Hollywood Film Star, born in Walworth
    Walworth, London

    Walworth is an inner-city district in the London Borough of Southwark. Walworth probably derives its name from the old English "Wealhworth" which meant Welsh farm....
    )
  • Jack Cohen
    Jack Cohen (Tesco)

    Sir John Edward Cohen , born Jacob Edward Kohen and commonly known as Jack Cohen, was a British businessman who founded the Tesco supermarket chain....
     (founder of Tesco
    Tesco

    Tesco Public limited company is a British-based international grocery and general merchandising retail chain. It is the largest British retailer by both global sales and domestic market share with profits exceeding ?2 billion....
     supermarket chain, born in Whitechapel
    Whitechapel

    Whitechapel is a built-up inner city district in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, England. It is located east of Charing Cross and roughly bounded by the Bishopsgate thoroughfare on the west, Hanbury Street on the north, Brady Street and Cavell Street on the east and Commercial Road on the south....
    )
  • Phil Collen
    Phil Collen

    Philip Kenneth Collen is the lead guitarist for United Kingdom rock band Def Leppard. He joined the band in 1982 following the firing of Pete Willis....
     (guitarist Def Leppard
    Def Leppard

    Def Leppard are an England Rock music band from Sheffield, who formed in 1977 as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. Largely on the strength of their albums Pyromania and Hysteria , Def Leppard became one of the List of best-selling music artists rock bands throughout the 1980s, selling over 65 million albums worldw...
    , musician, born in Hackney
    London Borough of Hackney

    The London Borough of Hackney is a London borough in East London, and forms part of inner London and North London....
    )
  • Dave Courtney
    Dave Courtney

    "Dodgy" Dave Courtney is a self-proclaimed former United Kingdom gangster who has become both an author and celebrity-gangster figure. Author Bernard O'Mahoney and the former member of the Richardson gang Frankie Fraser have accused Courtney of embellishing and fabricating his criminal record and position in the underworld; however, Courtney...
     (bodyguard/actor, born in Bermondsey
    Bermondsey

    Bermondsey is an area in London on the south bank of the river Thames, and is part of the London Borough of Southwark. To the west lies Southwark, to the east Rotherhithe, and to the south, Walworth, London....
    )
  • Roger Delgado
    Roger Delgado

    Roger Caesar Marius Bernard de Delgado Torres Castillo Roberto was a United Kingdom actor, best known for his role as Master in Doctor Who....
    , (actor, born in Whitechapel
    Whitechapel

    Whitechapel is a built-up inner city district in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, England. It is located east of Charing Cross and roughly bounded by the Bishopsgate thoroughfare on the west, Hanbury Street on the north, Brady Street and Cavell Street on the east and Commercial Road on the south....
    )
  • Craig Fairbrass
    Craig Fairbrass

    Craig Fairbrass is an England actor. He is known for his tall stature and distinctive Cockney accent.Fairbrass was born in Stepney, London. He made his acting debut in an episode of the television series Shelley in 1980....
     (actor, born in Stepney
    Stepney

    Stepney is an inner-city district in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is located east north-east of Charing Cross and forms part of the East End of London....
    )
  • Harry Fielder
    Harry Fielder

    Harry Fielder is an English people actor and Film extra who has worked extensively in British films and British television since the 1960s....
     (actor)
  • Bud Flanagan
    Bud Flanagan

    Bud Flanagan was a popular England wartime entertainer, born Chaim Reuben Weintrop in Whitechapel, in the East End of London.Early life...
    , (actor, comedian, and singer, born in Whitechapel
    Whitechapel

    Whitechapel is a built-up inner city district in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, England. It is located east of Charing Cross and roughly bounded by the Bishopsgate thoroughfare on the west, Hanbury Street on the north, Brady Street and Cavell Street on the east and Commercial Road on the south....
    )
  • Samantha Fox
    Samantha Fox

    Samantha Karen "Sam" Fox is an English former glamour model and dance-pop singer....
     (model/singer, born in Mile End
    Mile End

    Mile End is an area of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in East London, England, England. Mile End is east north-east of Charing Cross....
    )
  • Steve Harris
    Steve Harris (musician)

    Stephen Percy Harris is the bassist, band leader and primary composer of the Heavy metal music band Iron Maiden. In addition, he plays keyboards, and sings backing vocals....
    , (founder, bass player Iron Maiden
    Iron Maiden

    Iron Maiden are an English Heavy metal music band from Leyton, East London, England, formed in 1975. The band is led by founder, bassist and songwriter Steve Harris ....
    , born in Leytonstone
    Leytonstone

    Leytonstone is an area of East London, England and part of the London Borough of Waltham Forest. It is a high density suburban area, located north east of Charing Cross....
    )
  • Gary Holton
    Gary Holton

    Gary Frederick Holton was an England actor and musician from London. He is best remembered for playing the part of Wayne in the United Kingdom television comedy Auf Wiedersehen, Pet....
     (actor, musician, born in Hackney
    London Borough of Hackney

    The London Borough of Hackney is a London borough in East London, and forms part of inner London and North London....
    )
  • Kenney Jones
    Kenney Jones

    Kenneth Thomas "Kenney" Jones is a veteran England rock music drummer best known for his work in Small Faces, Faces , and The Who....
     (musician, born in Stepney
    Stepney

    Stepney is an inner-city district in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is located east north-east of Charing Cross and forms part of the East End of London....
    )
  • Kray twins
    Kray twins

    Reginald "Reggie" Kray and Ronald "Ronnie" Kray were identical twin brothers, and the foremost organised crime leaders dominating London's East End during the 1950s and 1960s....
    , Ronald and Reginald (gangsters, born in Hoxton
    Hoxton

    Hoxton is an area in the London Borough of Hackney, immediately north of the financial district of the City of London. The area of Hoxton is bordered by Regents Canal on the north side, Wharf Road and City Road on the west, Old Street on the south, and Kingsland Road on the east....
    )
  • Ronnie Lane
    Ronnie Lane

    Ronald Frederick "Ronnie" Lane was an English singer, songwriter and bass guitar player best known for his membership in two prominent English rock bands, the Small Faces and Faces ....
     (musician, born in Bow
    Bow, London

    Bow is an area of East London, England, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is a built-up, mostly residential district located east of Charing Cross, and is a part of the East End of London....
    )
  • Angela Lansbury
    Angela Lansbury

    Angela Brigid Lansbury, Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom actor and singer whose career has spanned six decades. She made her first film appearance in Gaslight , for which she received an Academy Award nomination, and expanded her repertoire to Broadway theatre and television in the 1950s....
     (Hollywood actress, born in Poplar
    Poplar, London

    Poplar is an area of the East End of London in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Poplar is about east of Charing Cross....
    )
  • Vera Lynn
    Vera Lynn

    Dame Vera Lynn Order of the British Empire is a popular United Kingdom vocalist whose career flourished during World War II, when she was nicknamed "Forces Sweetheart"....
     (singer, born in East Ham
    East Ham

    East Ham is a place in the London Borough of Newham. It is a built-up district located 8 miles east north-east of Charing Cross....
    )
  • Lenny McLean
    Lenny McLean

    Leonard McLean , better known as "The Guv'nor", was a famed East End of London bareknuckle boxing, bouncer , former criminal, author, television presenter, and actor; McLean was often referred to as "the hardest man in UK"....
     (bare knuckle/unlicensed boxer/actor, born in Hoxton
    Hoxton

    Hoxton is an area in the London Borough of Hackney, immediately north of the financial district of the City of London. The area of Hoxton is bordered by Regents Canal on the north side, Wharf Road and City Road on the west, Old Street on the south, and Kingsland Road on the east....
    )
  • Hoxton Tom McCourt
    Hoxton Tom McCourt

    Hoxton' Tom McCourt was the bassist and bandleader of punk rock/Oi! band, The 4-Skins. He was one of the most influential members of the skinhead revival of 1977-1978, the mod revival of 1978-1979 and the Oi! movement from 1979 to 1984....
     (musician/face, born in Hoxton
    Hoxton

    Hoxton is an area in the London Borough of Hackney, immediately north of the financial district of the City of London. The area of Hoxton is bordered by Regents Canal on the north side, Wharf Road and City Road on the west, Old Street on the south, and Kingsland Road on the east....
    )
  • Dizzee Rascal
    Dizzee Rascal

    Dylan Mills , known professionally as Dizzee Rascal, is a British rapper and a record producer. His music is a blend of garage MCing, conventional Hip hop music, grime and ragga, with extremely eclectic samples and more exotic styles....
     (musician/producer, born in Bow
    Bow, London

    Bow is an area of East London, England, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is a built-up, mostly residential district located east of Charing Cross, and is a part of the East End of London....
    )
  • Mike Reid
    Mike Reid (entertainer)

    Michael Reid was an English people comedian and character actor, hailing from Metropolitan Borough of Hackney in East London, England, who is best remembered for playing the role of Frank Butcher in EastEnders and hosting the popular children's TV show Runaround ....
     (actor/comedian, born in Hackney
    Hackney Central

    Hackney Central is the central district of the London Borough of Hackney in East London, England. It comprises the area roughly surrounding, and extending north from Mare Street....
    )
  • Philip Ridley
    Philip Ridley

    Philip Ridley is a British people artist working with various media. His work is characterised by an intriguing mix of both the menacing and the magical....
     (artist, writer, film maker, photographer born in Bethnal Green
    Bethnal Green

    Bethnal Green is an area in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, in the East End of London. Bethnal Green is located north east of Charing Cross....
    )
  • Roy Shaw
    Roy Shaw

    Roy "Pretty Boy" Shaw , also known as Roy "Mean Machine" Shaw, is a former criminal, prisoner, and was both a professional boxer and Bare-knuckle boxing during the 1970s and 1980s....
     (bare knuckle/unlicensed boxer, born in Stepney
    Stepney

    Stepney is an inner-city district in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is located east north-east of Charing Cross and forms part of the East End of London....
    )
  • Danny Dyer
    Danny Dyer

    Danny Dyer is an England actor,media personality and chairman of Greenwich Borough F.C., a non-league Association football team....
     (actor, born in Canning Town
    Canning Town

    Canning Town is an area of East London, England. It is part of the London Borough of Newham and is situated in the area of the former London docks on the north side of the River Thames....
    )
  • Terence Stamp
    Terence Stamp

    Terence Henry Stamp is an Academy Award-nominated English actor. He is best known for having played the character General Zod in the Superman movie franchise....
     (actor, born in Stepney
    Stepney

    Stepney is an inner-city district in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is located east north-east of Charing Cross and forms part of the East End of London....
    )
  • Tommy Steele
    Tommy Steele

    Tommy Steele Order of the British Empire is an England entertainer. Steele is widely regarded as Britain's first teen idol and rock 'n' roll star....
     (singer, musician and actor, born in Bermondsey
    Bermondsey

    Bermondsey is an area in London on the south bank of the river Thames, and is part of the London Borough of Southwark. To the west lies Southwark, to the east Rotherhithe, and to the south, Walworth, London....
    )
  • Sir Alan Sugar (businessman, born in Hackney
    Hackney Central

    Hackney Central is the central district of the London Borough of Hackney in East London, England. It comprises the area roughly surrounding, and extending north from Mare Street....
    )
  • Terry Venables
    Terry Venables

    Terence Frederick 'Terry' Venables , often referred to as 'El Tel', is an English football coach and former player. He most notably played for Chelsea F.C., Tottenham Hotspur F.C....
     (football coach, born in Dagenham
    Dagenham

    Dagenham is a suburban town in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, situated east of Charing Cross, in East London....
    )
  • Sid Vicious
    Sid Vicious

    Sid Vicious was an England musician best known as the former bassist of the influential punk rock group Sex Pistols....
     (Sex Pistols
    Sex Pistols

    The Sex Pistols are an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975. The band are widely credited with initiating the punk movement in the United Kingdom and creating the first generation gap within rock and roll....
     vocalist and bassist
    Bassist

    A bass player is a musician who plays a double bass, bass guitar, or another low-pitched instrument, such as keyboard bass or a low brass instrument such as tuba or sousaphone....
    , born in Hackney
    London Borough of Hackney

    The London Borough of Hackney is a London borough in East London, and forms part of inner London and North London....
    )
  • Barbara Windsor
    Barbara Windsor

    Barbara Ann Windsor, Order of the British Empire is an English people actress. Her best known roles are in the Carry On films and as Peggy Mitchell in the BBC soap opera EastEnders; she is now considered by many to be something of a British national institution....
     (actress, born in Shoreditch
    Shoreditch

    Shoreditch is an area of London within the London Borough of Hackney. It is a built-up part of the inner city immediately to the north of the City of London, located north east of Charing Cross....
    )
  • Ray Winstone
    Ray Winstone

    Raymond Andrew "Ray" Winstone, Jr. is an Emmy Award-winning English people film and television actor. He is mostly known for his "tough guy" roles, beginning with that of Carlin in the 1979 film Scum , and is also known as a voice over actor....
     (actor, born in Hackney
    London Borough of Hackney

    The London Borough of Hackney is a London borough in East London, and forms part of inner London and North London....
    )


Famous Cockney performances

  • Bill Bailey
    Bill Bailey

    Mark Bailey , Stage name as Bill Bailey, is an England stand-up comedian, musician and actor, known for his appearances on Have I Got News for You, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, QI and Black Books....
    's classic skit about Cockney and classical composers
  • Timothy Bateson
    Timothy Bateson

    Timothy Bateson is a United Kingdom actor.He has appeared in many film, television and radio productions including Brother Cadfael, Doctor Who , Dad's Army and Labyrinth ....
     as The Worm in the film     Labyrinth
    Labyrinth (film)

    Labyrinth is a 1986 fantasy film, directed by Jim Henson, produced by George Lucas, and designed by Brian Froud. Henson collaborated on the screenwriting with children's author Dennis Lee and Monty Python alumnus Terry Jones....
  • Ronnie Barker
    Ronnie Barker

    Ronald William George Barker, Order of the British Empire , was an English actor and comedian, best known for his roles as Norman Stanley Fletcher in the British comedy television series Porridge , as various characters in the British comedy television series The Two Ronnies and as Albert Arkwright in the British comedy television ser...
     as 'Fletch
    Norman Stanley Fletcher

    Norman Stanley 'Fletch' Fletcher is the main character in the popular BBC sitcom Porridge . He was played by Ronnie Barker and is widely renowned as one of the great comic creations....
    ' in the TV comedy series     Porridge
    Porridge (TV series)

    Porridge is a British sitcom that was broadcast on BBC One from 1973 to 1977, running for three series, two Christmas specials, as well as a Porridge ....
  • James Beck
    James Beck

    Stanley James Beck was an England actor best remembered for his role as Private Joe Walker, the cockney spiv in the popular BBC sitcom Dad's Army which ran from 1968 to 1977....
    's lovable Cockney spiv Private Joe Walker
    Private Joe Walker

    Private Joe Walker is a fictional black market spiv and British Home Guard platoon member portrayed by actor James Beck on the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army....
     from war time comedy     Dad's Army
    Dad's Army

    Dad?s Army is a British sitcom about the Home Guard in the World War II. It was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft and broadcast on BBC television between 1968 and 1977....
  • Kathy Burke
    Kathy Burke

    Katherine Lucy Bridget Burke is an England actor, comedienne, playwright and Theatre direction....
     as 'Linda LaHughes' in comedy series     Gimme Gimme Gimme and the film Nil By Mouth
    Nil by Mouth (film)

    Nil by Mouth is a British films of 1997 Cinema of the United Kingdom film surrounding the life of a family of characters living in South East London....
  • Michael Caine
    Michael Caine

    Sir Michael Caine Order of the British Empire , is a two-time Academy Award and multiple BAFTA Award and Golden Globe winning England film actor who has appeared in more than one hundred films....
     in     The Italian Job
    The Italian Job

    The Italian Job is a United Kingdom heist film, written by Troy Kennedy Martin, produced by Michael Deeley and directed by Peter Collinson ....
     (original), The Ipcress File
    The Ipcress File (film)

    The Ipcress File is a Cinema of the United Kingdom espionage film directed by Sidney J. Furie and starring Michael Caine, Guy Doleman, Nigel Green and Gordon Jackson ....
     and the Jack the Ripper
    Jack the Ripper

    Jack the Ripper is an pseudonym given to an unidentified serial killer active in the largely impoverished Whitechapel area and adjacent districts of London, England, in late 1888....
     film. Examples of Cockney slang can be found in his performance with Mike Myers in Austin Powers in Goldmember, as well as his signature film, Alfie.
  • Phil Daniels
    Phil Daniels

    Philip Daniels is an England actor, most noted for film roles as Jimmy in Quadrophenia , Richards in Scum , Kevin Wicks in EastEnders, and for his collaborations with Britpop band Blur ....
     narrating on the title track of Blur's     Parklife
    Parklife

    Parklife is the third studio album by the British alternative rock band Blur , released on 25 April 1994 on Food Records. After disappointing sales for their previous album Modern Life is Rubbish , Parklife returned Blur to prominence in the UK, helped by its four hit singles: "Girls & Boys ", "End of a Century", "Parklife " and "...
     album
  • Chas & Dave "Rockney music duo".
  • Don Cheadle
    Don Cheadle

    Donald Frank "Don" Cheadle is an United States actor, film producer, philanthropist, and author. Cheadle rose to prominence after playing supporting roles in films such as Out of Sight, Traffic , and the Ocean's Eleven series of films....
    's performance in     Ocean's Eleven
    Ocean's Eleven (2001 film)

    Ocean's Eleven is a 2001 in film remake of the 1960 Rat Pack heist film Ocean's Eleven . The 2001 film was directed by Steven Soderbergh and features an ensemble cast....
     (2001)
  • Harry H. Corbett
    Harry H. Corbett

    Harry H. Corbett Order of the British Empire was an England actor.Corbett was best known for his starring role in the hugely popular and long-running BBC Television sitcom Steptoe and Son in the 1960s and 70s....
     and Wilfrid Brambell
    Wilfrid Brambell

    Wilfrid Brambell was an Ireland film and television actor, born in Dublin, best known for his role in the United Kingdom television series Steptoe and Son....
     as Albert and Harold Steptoe in     Steptoe and Son
    Steptoe and Son

    Steptoe and Son is a British sitcom written by Galton and Simpson about two rag and bone man living in Oil Drum Lane, a fictional street in Shepherd's Bush, London....
  • Arthur English
    Arthur English

    Arthur Leslie Norman English was an England comedian from the music hall tradition.English was born in Aldershot, Hampshire. After serving in the army in World War II, reaching the rank of sergeant, English worked as a painter and decorator in his native town....
     as 'Beverley Harmon' and Wendy Richard
    Wendy Richard

    Wendy Richard, Member of the Order of the British Empire was an England actor best known for playing List of Are You Being Served? characters#Miss Shirley Brahms in Are You Being Served? and Pauline Fowler in EastEnders....
     as 'Shirley Brahms' in comedy series     Are You Being Served?
    Are You Being Served?

    Are You Being Served? was a long-running British sitcom broadcast from 1972 to 1985. It was set in the men's and women's department of Grace Brothers, a large, fictional London store....
  • Gary Holton
    Gary Holton

    Gary Frederick Holton was an England actor and musician from London. He is best remembered for playing the part of Wayne in the United Kingdom television comedy Auf Wiedersehen, Pet....
     as 'Wayne Norris' in     Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
    Auf Wiedersehen, Pet

    Auf Wiedersehen, Pet is a United Kingdom comedy-drama series about a group of seven British migrant construction workers: Wayne Winston Norris, Dennis Patterson , Leonard "Oz" Osborne, Brian "Bomber" Busbridge , Barry Taylor , Neville Hope and Albert Arthur Moxey, who, in Series 1, are living and working on a German building site....
  • Bob Hoskins
    Bob Hoskins

    Robert William "Bob" Hoskins, Jr. is an England actor, known for playing Cockney rough diamonds and gangsters, and for his performances in family films such as Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Hook ....
     as 'Harold Shand' in     The Long Good Friday
    The Long Good Friday

    The Long Good Friday is a Cinema of the United Kingdom gangster film starring Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren. It was completed in 1979 in film but, because of release delays, it is generally credited as a 1980 film....
     and Mona Lisa
    Mona Lisa (film)

    Mona Lisa is a 1986 in film British film about a petty criminal who becomes entangled in the dangerous life of a high-class call girl. The movie was written by Neil Jordan and David Leland, and directed by Jordan....
  • Eric Idle
    Eric Idle

    Eric Idle is an England comedian, actor, author, singer and composer of comic songs. He wrote and performed as a member of the internationally renowned British comedy group Monty Python....
     in the song "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
    Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

    "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" is a popular song written by Eric Idle that originally featured in the 1979 film Monty Python's Life of Brian and has gone on to become a common singalong at public events such as football matches as well as funerals....
    " (    Life of Brian)
  • David Jason
    David Jason

    Sir David John White, Order of the British Empire, known by his stage name David Jason , is an England actor, known for his comedy and dramatic roles....
     as Del Boy
    Del Boy

    Derek Edward Trotter , more commonly known as "Del Boy", is the fictional lead character in the popular BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses....
     (or Derek Trotter) in     Only Fools and Horses
    Only Fools and Horses

    Only Fools and Horses is a United Kingdom television situation comedy, created and written by John Sullivan , and made and broadcast by the BBC....
    ; though he was a South London
    South London

    South London is the southern part of London, England. The area it covers is defined differently for a range of purposes....
    er, he used much Cockney rhyming slang. Nearly all of the other characters in     Fools and Horses were London
    London

    London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
    ers as well.
  • Juliet Landau
    Juliet Landau

    Juliet Landau is an American actress best known for co-starring as Loretta King Hadler in Tim Burton's Ed Wood and for portraying Drusilla on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and spinoff show Angel ....
     as the vampire Drusilla in TV shows     Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel
  • Tress MacNeille
    Tress MacNeille

    Tress MacNeille is an United States voice acting best known for providing various voices on the list of animated television series The Simpsons, Futurama, Rugrats, All Grown Up!, Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs and some Disney movies....
     as Colleen the London collie
    Collie

    A collie is a distinctive type of herding dog, ultimately originating in Great Britain, especially in the upland areas of the north and west....
     in the cartoon     Road Rovers
    Road Rovers

    Road Rovers was an United States animated television series written and produced by Tom Ruegger that premiered on Kids' WB on September 2, 1996....
  • Warren Mitchell
    Warren Mitchell

    Warren Mitchell is an England actor....
     as Alf Garnett
    Alf Garnett

    Alf Garnett is a fictional character in the United Kingdom Situation comedy Till Death Us Do Part , Till Death... and In Sickness and in Health, and chat show The Thoughts of Chairman Alf....
     in     Till Death Us Do Part
  • Kate Nash
    Kate Nash

    Kate Marie Nash is an English people singer-songwriter based in London. She had a UK #2 hit "Foundations " in 2007, followed by the platinum selling UK number 1 album Made of Bricks....
     is a singer songwriter with a Cockney accent despite being from Harrow, London.
  • Lily Allen
    Lily Allen

    Lily Rose Beatrice Allen is an England singer-songwriter. Best known for her songs "Smile ", "LDN ", "Littlest Things", "Alfie ", "Oh My God ", "The Fear " and her Mockney style, Allen is the daughter of actor/musician Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen....
     is a singer with a Cockney accent, like Kate Nash.
  • Dick Van Dyke
    Dick Van Dyke

    Richard Wayne ?Dick? Van Dyke is an United States actor, presenter and entertainer, with a career spanning six decades. He is best known for his starring roles in Mary Poppins , Chitty Chitty Bang Bang , The Dick Van Dyke Show and Diagnosis: Murder....
    's famous and much parodied attempt at a Cockney accent in     Mary Poppins
    Mary Poppins (film)

    Mary Poppins is a 1964 in film musical film starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke and produced by Walt Disney, based on the Mary Poppins children's literature by P....
    , which is often mocked as 'how not to do Cockney'
  • Simon Nash
    Simon Nash

    Television Fame Nash made his television debut in 1980 at the age of 8 as Sammy in the 1980 sitcom Nobody's Perfect . He later starred as Sean Stebbings in the 1987 black sitcom Tickets for the Titanic, as Garth Stubbs in the first series of Birds of a Feather, and in the children's TV programme Kappatoo in the early 1990s....
     as Ten Cents
    List of recurring TUGS characters

    | |}The following is a list of recurring characters who appeared in the 1988 children's television series, TUGS....
     in the children's television series
    Children's television series

    Children's television series are television programmes designed for and marketed to children, normally broadcast during the morning and afternoon....
    ,     TUGS
    TUGS

    TUGS is a United Kingdom children's television series, first broadcast in 1988. It was created by the producers of Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends, Robert D....
     (1988)
  • Catherine Tate
    Catherine Tate

    Catherine Tate is an England actress, writer and comedienne. She has won numerous awards for her work on the sketch comedy series The Catherine Tate Show as well as being nominated for an International Emmy Award and four British Academy Television Awards....
     as Joannie "Nan" Taylor
    Joannie Taylor

    Joannie 'Nan' Taylor is a fictional character in The Catherine Tate Show. She is one of the main characters of the show and is portrayed by Catherine Tate....
     in     The Catherine Tate Show
    The Catherine Tate Show

    The Catherine Tate Show is an award-winning United Kingdom television sketch comedy written by Catherine Tate who stars in all of the show's sketches, which feature a wide range of The Catherine Tate Show characters....
  • Jessie Wallace
    Jessie Wallace

    Jessie Wallace is an English actress....
     as 'Kat Slater' on the soap opera     EastEnders
    EastEnders

    EastEnders is a popular and award-winning television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985. It currently ranks within the top of the most watched shows in the United Kingdom....
  • Dennis Waterman
    Dennis Waterman

    Dennis Waterman is an English actor and singer, best known for his tough-guy roles in television series such as The Sweeney and Minder ....
     and George Cole
    George Cole

    George Edward Cole OBE is an England actor.In an interview included in the 2007 DVD release of A Christmas Carol he recounts that he was given up for adoption at the age of ten days, and adopted by Mr and Mrs George Cole....
     in the 1980s TV series     Minder
    Minder (TV series)

    Minder is a British comedy-drama about the London Organized crime. Initially produced by Verity Lambert, it was made by Euston Films, a subsidiary of Thames Television and shown on ITV....
  • Ray Winstone
    Ray Winstone

    Raymond Andrew "Ray" Winstone, Jr. is an Emmy Award-winning English people film and television actor. He is mostly known for his "tough guy" roles, beginning with that of Carlin in the 1979 film Scum , and is also known as a voice over actor....
     in     Scum
    Scum (film)

    Scum is a film made in 1979 in film portraying the brutality of life inside a United Kingdom borstal. Directed by Alan Clarke, written by Roy Minton and starring Ray Winstone, Mick Ford, Julian Firth, John Blundell , Phil Daniels, Alan Igbon and Ray Burdis, it tells the story of a young offender named Carlin as he arrives at the instituti...
    , Sexy Beast
    Sexy Beast

    Sexy Beast is a 2000 in film United Kingdom film directed by Jonathan Glazer, starring Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley and Ian McShane. Produced by Jeremy Thomas, it was Glazer's debut feature film....
     and Henry VIII
    Henry VIII (TV serial)

    Henry VIII is a United Kingdom two-part television serial produced principally by Granada Television for ITV, based on the life of Henry VIII of England....
  • Jack Wild
    Jack Wild

    Jack Wild was an England actor who achieved fame for his roles in both stage and screen productions of the Lionel Bart musical Oliver! with Ron Moody, Shani Wallis and Oliver Reed....
     as Jimmie from     HR Pufnstuf, The Artful Dodger
    The Artful Dodger

    File:Dodger introduces Oliver to Fagin by Cruikshank .jpgFile:Dodger.jpegJack Dawkins, better known as the Artful Dodger, is a character in the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist....
     in     Oliver!
    Oliver!

    Oliver! is a United Kingdom Musical theater, with music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. The musical is loosely based upon the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens....
     and Ornshaw in Melody
    Melody (1971 film)

    Melody is a United Kingdom film released in 1971 in film. It is about "puppy love." Although initially a box office disappointment in both the United States and Britain it has over the years become a cult classic....
  • Rita Malone in Flushed Away
    Flushed Away

    Flushed Away is a 2006 in film computer animation British film directed by David Bowers and Sam Fell. It is a partnership between Aardman Animations of Wallace and Gromit fame, and DreamWorks Animation, and is Aardman's first completely computer-animated feature as opposed to the usual stop motion....
  • Christian Bale
    Christian Bale

    Christian Charles Philip Bale is an English people actor whose film credits include American Psycho , Batman Begins, The Dark Knight , The Prestige , 3:10 to Yuma , and the upcoming film Terminator Salvation, in which he will play the role of John Connor....
     as Alfred Borden in     The Prestige
    The Prestige (film)

    The Prestige is a 2006 in film period piece film directed by Christopher Nolan, with a screenplay adapted from Christopher Priest 's 1995 in literature World Fantasy Award for Best Novel-winning The Prestige....
  • Summer Glau
    Summer Glau

    Summer Lyn Glau is an American dancer and actor, known for playing River Tam in the short-lived science fiction series Firefly and follow-up movie Serenity , and for playing Cameron in the series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles....
     as River Tam in the     Firefly
    Firefly (TV series)

    Firefly is an American science fiction television series created by writer/director Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel , under his Mutant Enemy Productions....
     episode Shindig, when she mocks Badger
  • Noel Fielding
    Noel Fielding

    Noel Fielding is an English people artist, comedian and actor. He is known for his role as Vince Noir in The Mighty Boosh, which he also co-writes with fellow actor Julian Barratt....
     as The Hitcher in     The Mighty Boosh
    The Mighty Boosh

    The Mighty Boosh, colloquially referred to as The Boosh, is the collective name for the creators of the British comedy written by and starring comedians Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding....
  • Audrey Hepburn
    Audrey Hepburn

    Audrey Hepburn was a Belgian-born, Dutch-raised actress of British and Dutch ancestry.Born in Brussels, Hepburn lived in Arnhem in The Netherlands during her childhood and for the duration of the World War II....
     as Eliza Doolittle in     My Fair Lady
    My Fair Lady

    My Fair Lady is a musical theater based upon George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe....
  • The Mutton Brothers
  • 2D
    2D (Gorillaz)

    2D is a fictional member of the animated band Gorillaz. The character's actual name is Stuart Pot, Stu-Pot for short. He performs the lead vocals and plays the keyboard instrument for the band....
     and Murdoc Niccals in     Gorillaz
    Gorillaz

    Gorillaz is a virtual band created in 1998 by Damon Albarn of alternative rock band Blur , and Jamie Hewlett, co-creator of the comic book Tank Girl....
  • Rob Paulsen
    Rob Paulsen

    Robert Fredrick Paulsen, III is an United States voice acting best known as the voice behind "Raphael " from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, "Yakko Warner" from Animaniacs and "Pinky_and_the_Brain#Pinky" from Pinky and the Brain....
     as Pinky in     Pinky and the Brain
    Pinky and the Brain

    Pinky and the Brain are cartoon characters who have starred in the American animated television series Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, and Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain....


See also

  • British English
    British English

    British English or UK English is the broad term used to distinguish the forms of the English language used in the United Kingdom from forms used elsewhere....
  • Rhyming slang
  • Estuary English
    Estuary English

    Estuary English is a name given to the dialect of English language widely spoken in South East England and the East of England; especially along the River Thames and Thames Estuary, which is where the two regions meet....
  • Languages of the United Kingdom
  • London slang
    London slang

    London slang is a mixture of words and phrases from many sources, reflecting the diverse ethnic and cultural makeup of the city's population. Cockney rhyming slang is the best known form of London slang....
  • Mockney
    Mockney

    In British English, the term mockney has come to be used, predominantly in the media, to describe those who present themselves as Cockneys with the intention of gaining popular credibility....
  • Jafaican
    Jafaican

    Multicultural London English , colloquially called Blockney or Jafaican, is a dialect of English language that emerged in the late 20th century....
  • L-vocalisation
    L-vocalization

    In linguistics, l-vocalization is a process by which an sound is replaced by a vowel or semivowel sound. This happens most often to ....
  • T-glottalisation
    T-glottalization

    T-glottalization is a process that occurs for many English language speakers, that causes the phoneme to be pronounced as the glottal stop in certain positions....


Bibliography


External links

  • Listen to examples of London and other regional accents and dialects of the UK on the British Library's 'Sounds Familiar' website