On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 9:42 AM, 'Ellen Rawson' via Tamson House <tamson-house@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Rick "The iron-fisted guvna of Tamson House"Cockney is an interesting one, as the tabloids were upset when a Museum of London study showed that many Londoners only know the most basic Cockney rhyming slang. (I like a newish one, 'Barack Obamas' for 'pyjamas'. :) Huge headlines with 'Cockney Dying Out: OMG the world is Ending', such as here. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1291365/You-wont-Adam-Eve-The-cockney-accent-moving-Hertfordshire-Essex.html
For years, though, Cockney was looked down upon. Go figure. Language changes and so do attitudes towards it. Jonathan Swift decried how the language was being ruine
In my vast knowledge of linguistics (that I've gained watching TV), it seems that Cockney, or at least, the more prominent characteristics of Cockney, extend beyond East London into middle-class Essex. Assuming, of course, that the English accents in Gavin & Stacey are more accurate than the Welsh (which tend to be about 40 miles too far to the west).
Rick Le Mon
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Os byddi di'n edrych yn ofalus, mae pob creigiau'n hardd.
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