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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Rhyming slang (redirect from Cockney Rhyming slang)
prevalent among Cockneys in England, and was first used in the early 19th century in the East End of London; hence its alternative name, Cockney rhyming slang...
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Cockney and similar terms may mean: In England, Cockney is a dialect spoken mainly by working-class and lower-middle class Londoners, or a label applied...
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Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel were an English rock band who formed in the early 1970s in London. Their music covered a range of styles from pop to progressive...
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The "Cockney School" refers to a group of poets and essayists writing in England in the second and third decades of the 19th century. The term came in...
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Cockney Wanker is a character created by Graham Dury and Simon Thorpe in Viz based on a stereotyped male Cockney. Wanker speaks in rhyming slang (often...
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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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Cockney Rejects are an English punk rock band that formed in the East End of London in 1978. Their 1980 song "Oi, Oi, Oi" was the inspiration for the...
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Eric Bristow (redirect from Crafty Cockney)
John Bristow MBE (25 April 1957 – 5 April 2018), nicknamed "The Crafty Cockney", was an English professional darts player and one of the most recognisable...
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Steve Harley (category Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel members)
Harley, was an English singer-songwriter and frontman of the rock group Cockney Rebel. He had six UK hit singles with the band in the mid-1970s, including...
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Steve Harley discography (section Cockney Rebel)
singer-songwriter Steve Harley, including releases by Cockney Rebel and Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel. List of songs recorded by Steve Harley This album...
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Jesse Cockney (born July 26, 1989, in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories) is a Canadian Olympic cross-country skier of Inuvialuit heritage whose father...
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century, although it has been suggested that the Cockney style of speech is much older. Some features of Cockney include, Th-fronting (pronouncing "th" as "f")...
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1967 FA Cup final (redirect from Cockney Cup Final)
contested between two teams from London, and is thus often dubbed the "Cockney Cup Final". Tottenham won the match 2–1, their fifth triumph and third...
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English folk music (redirect from Cockney music)
The folk music of England is a tradition-based music which has existed since the later medieval period. It is often contrasted with courtly, classical...
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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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14 March 1933) is an English retired actor. Known for his distinctive Cockney accent, he has appeared in more than 160 films over a career that spanned...
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Cockneys vs Zombies is a 2012 British zombie action comedy film directed by Matthias Hoene and written by James Moran and Lucas Roche. The plot centres...
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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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Great Vowel Shift (redirect from Cockney Vowel Shift)
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For...
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London, the Cockney dialect was traditionally used by the lower classes, and it was long a socially stigmatised variety. The spread of Cockney features across...
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Message Man (redirect from Cockney Black)
significant for its socio-political stance in songs such as "Race Hate" and "Cockney Black". The track, "Hello Africa", is considered a major highlight of this...
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Mockney (a portmanteau of "mock" and "cockney") is an affected accent and form of speech in imitation of cockney or working-class London speech, or a person...
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Greatest Hits Vol. 1 is the first album by the band Cockney Rejects released in 1980. Despite the title, it is not a greatest hits compilation album....
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Sam Weller (character) (section Weller as a Cockney)
Charles Dickens, and the character that made Dickens famous. A humorous Cockney bootblack, Sam Weller first appeared in the fourth serialised episode....
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(Come Up and See Me)" is a song by the English rock band Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, released on 31 January 1975 by EMI as the lead single from the band's...
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100 Greatest TV Characters. Incorporating aspects of Cockney culture (though not an actual Cockney), Del Boy is known for his broken French phrases, which...
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Lethal (album) (redirect from Lethal (Cockney Rejects album))
Lethal is an album by the English punk rock band Cockney Rejects released in 1990. "Bad Man Down" (3.45) "Penitentiary" (4.26) "Struttin' My Stuff" (3...
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"Sebastian" is a song by the British rock band Cockney Rebel, fronted by Steve Harley. It was released as the band's debut single in 1973 from their album...
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Harley & Cockney Rebel is a compilation album by Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, released by EMI Gold in 1999. It features material from Cockney Rebel, Steve...
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