• The Cockney Alphabet is a recital of the English alphabet intended to parody the way the alphabet is taught to small working class children. The ostensible...
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  • Example of a Cockney accent Voice of Michael Caine, who grew up in Southwark, London, recorded September 2010 from the BBC Radio 4 programme Front Row...
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    of Signals Spelling alphabet APCO radiotelephony spelling alphabet Cockney alphabet German phonetic alphabet Greek spelling alphabet ICAO radiotelephony...
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  • Armed Forces' radio alphabet Japanese radiotelephony alphabet Korean spelling alphabet Cockney alphabet Each transmission of figures is preceded and followed...
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  • Language-specific spelling alphabets Greek spelling alphabet German spelling alphabet Dutch spelling alphabet Russian spelling alphabet Cockney alphabet "Public Safety...
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    other symbols instead of phonetic symbols. The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the...
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    The Pashto alphabet (Pashto: پښتو الفبې, romanized: Pəx̌tó alfbâye) is the right-to-left abjad-based alphabet developed from the Arabic script, used for...
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  • Romic Alphabet, sometimes known as the Romic Reform, is a phonetic alphabet proposed by Henry Sweet. It descends from Ellis's Palaeotype alphabet and English...
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  • 20th-century lower-class local London accent, Cockney. There is much debate among linguists as to where Cockney and RP end and where Estuary English begins...
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  • article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the...
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  • working class and Cockney speech. It is effectively a local pronunciation of "hoy" (see H-dropping), an older expression. A study of the Cockney dialect in the...
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    more precisely, the glottis. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ʔ⟩. As a result of the obstruction of the...
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    article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the...
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    article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the...
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  • article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the...
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  • article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the...
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  • different accents; the Cockney accent spoken by some East Londoners is strikingly different from Received Pronunciation (RP). Cockney rhyming slang can be...
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  • 1929, they originated the Cockney Alphabet, a humorous alphabet that replaces the letters of the alphabet with supposed "Cockney" phonetics, such as "A for...
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  • article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the...
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    used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ɕ⟩ ("c", plus the curl also found in its...
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  • in normal speech, the voiced final consonant influencing vowel length. Cockney English features short and long varieties of the closing diphthong [ɔʊ]...
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  • article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the...
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    Hubert Nicholson ran a story on Spare titled "Father of Surrealism – He's a Cockney!". Jumping onto this new craze for surrealism, Spare released a set of...
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  • Culture, a British musician of Jamaican and Guyanese heritage, released "Cockney Translation", one of the first examples of British 'white slang' and British...
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    used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨o⟩. The close-mid back protruded vowel is...
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  • languages. There is no dedicated symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents the exact mid front unrounded vowel between close-mid [e]...
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  • topics Occasional allophone of /ɡ/ for some speakers of Scouse, RP and Cockney. In dialects that distinguish between which and witch. What is written...
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  • expert on the portrayal of the Cockney", while BBC News recognised the skill of actor John Mills (active 1932–2004) in Cockney speech. Dialect coach Robert...
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    sound used in some languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ɨ⟩, namely the lower-case letter i with...
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  • article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the...
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