Cockneys are, in the present-day sense of the word, white working-class inhabitants of London. According to tradition, the strict definition is limited to those born within earshot (generally taken to be three miles) of the Bow Bells, in other words the bells of St Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside. However, the bells were silent from the outbreak of World War II until 1961. Also, of course, as the general din in London has increased, the area in which the bells can be heard has contracted. Formerly it included the City, Bethnal Green, Stepney, Shoreditch, Whitechapel, Finsbury, and Hackney although according to the legend of Dick Whittington the bells could be heard from as far away as Highgate. London is the capital city of England and of the United Kingdom, and is the most populous city in the European Union. ... St Mary-le-Bow Church, built 1671-1680, one of Wrens City Churches built after the Great Fire of London Interior St Mary-le-Bow (Bow Church) is a historic church in the City of London, off Cheapside. ... A view of Cheapside published in 1837. ... World War II is the current Good Article Collaboration of the week! Please help to improve this article to the highest of standards. ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ... London is the capital city of England and of the United Kingdom, and is the most populous city in the European Union. ... Coat of arms The City of London is a small area in Greater London. ... Bethnal Green is a place in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, in the heart of Londons East End. ... Stepney is a place in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. ... Shoreditch Town Hall Shoreditch is a place in the London Borough of Hackney. ... Whitechapel is a place in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, United Kingdom. ... Finsbury is a place in the south of the London Borough of Islington. ... Hackney Town Hall was built in the 1930s for the old Metropolitan Borough. ... Dick Whittington is a character in British pantomime, very loosely based on the real-life Richard Whittington. ... View of Highgate, John Constable, 1st quarter of 19th century. ...

Origins of the word

The term was in use in this sense as early as 1600, when Samuel Rowlands in his satire The Letting of Humours Blood in the Head-Vaine, referred to 'a Bow-bell Cockney'. John Minsheu (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 he gave (from 'cock' and 'neigh', or from Latin incoctus, raw) were just guesses, and the OED later authoritatively explained the term as originating from cock and egg, meaning first a misshapen egg (1362), then a person ignorant of country ways (1521), then the senses mentioned above. 1597 1598 1599 - 1600 - 1601 1602 1603 |- | align=center colspan=2 | Decades: 1570s 1580s 1590s - 1600s - 1610s 1620s 1630s |- | align=center | Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century |} // Events January January 1 - Scotland adopts January 1st as being New Years Day February February 17 - Giordano Bruno burned at the... Samuel Rowlands (c. ... The World According To Ronald Reagan - a Finnish satirical poster from 1984 Satire is a literary technique of writing or art which exposes the follies of its subject (for example, individuals, organizations, or states) to ridicule, often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change. ... John Minsheu (or Minshew) (1560 - 1627) was an English linguist and lexicographer. ... Events Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Ahmed I (1603-1617) to Mustafa I (1617-1623). ... Etymology is the study of the origins of words. ... The Oxford English Dictionary print set The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is a dictionary published by the Oxford University Press (OUP). ... Centuries: 13th century - 14th century - 15th century Decades: 1310s 1320s 1330s 1340s 1350s - 1360s - 1370s 1380s 1390s 1400s 1410s Years: 1357 1358 1359 1360 1361 - 1362 - 1363 1364 1365 1366 1367 See also: 1362 state leaders Events Under Edward III, English replaces French as Englands national language, for the... Events January 3 - Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem. ...

Francis Grose's A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1785) derives the term from the following story: Francis Grose (1731 - 1791), antiquary and lexicographer, of Swiss extraction, was Richmond Herald 1755-63. ... Taken from the British Library Learning website page [1]: Francis Groses A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue was first published in 1785 and is a dictionary of slang. ...

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?

A more plausible derivation of the word can be found in Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary: London was referred to by the Normans as the "Land of Sugar Cake" (Old French: pais de cocaigne), 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, 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, "...that most children's constitutions are either spoiled or at least harmed, by cockering and tenderness." from Some Thoughts Concerning Education, 1693) 1888 advertisement for Websters Dictionary Websters Dictionary is a common title given to English language dictionaries in the United States, deriving its name from American lexicographer Noah Webster. ... Middle English is the name given by historical linguistics to the diverse forms of the English language spoken between the Norman invasion of 1066 and the mid-to-late 15th century, when the Chancery Standard, a form of London-based English, began to become widespread, a process aided by the... John Locke (August 29, 1632 – October 28, 1704) was an influential English philosopher. ... Events January 11 - Eruption of Mt. ...

The region that is called 'Cockney" 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 the Great Fire of London and rebuilt by Sir Christopher Wren. After the bells were destroyed again in 1941 in the Blitz of World War II, and before they were replaced in 1961, there was a period when some said that no 'Bow-bell' Cockneys could be born. The use of such a literal definition produces problems, for traffic noise and the current lack of a hospital with a maternity ward in earshot of the church would also severely limit the number of 'true' cockneys that could be born. For the movie, see 1941 (film) 1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1941 calendar). ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ...

Naturally, modern Cockneys scoff at that limitation, saying that, "The qualification is, that you are born within the area that the bells would be audible in, if they were ringing. They did not have to be ringing at the time (of birth), but if you would have been able to hear them if they were, then you qualify for the honour (of calling yourself a Cockney)." A study was done 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 6 miles to the east, 5 miles to the north, 3 miles to the south, and 4 miles to the west. This article is about the year 2000. ...

Thus, while all East Enders are Cockney, not all Cockneys are East Enders. The traditional core neighbourhoods of the East End are Bethnal Green, Whitechapel, Spitalfields, Stepney, Wapping, Limehouse, Poplar, Millwall, Hackney, Shoreditch, Bow and Mile End. The area gradually expanded as more land was built upon. Bethnal Green is a place in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, in the heart of Londons East End. ... Whitechapel is a place in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, United Kingdom. ... Christ Church, Spitalfields Spitalfields, an area in Tower Hamlets, east London near to Liverpool Street station and Brick Lane which gets its name from a contraction of hospital fields, as there used to be a major hospital in the area. ... Stepney is a place in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. ... Wapping Old Stairs, one of many points of access to the foreshore in the area. ... Limehouse Town Hall in 2004 Limehouse is a place in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. ... Poplar is an area of the East End of London in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. ... Millwall Docks Millwall sucks is an area in London, on the western side of the Isle of Dogs, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. ... Hackney is the principal area of the London Borough of Hackney in East London. ... Shoreditch Town Hall Shoreditch is a place in the London Borough of Hackney. ... Bow, historically Stratford-le-Bow [1], is a place in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. ... Mile End is an area of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in East London. ...

Cockney culture

London’s East End has always been a place of great change. While these changes were taking place, there was one thing that never changed, the way of the Cockney inhabitants. Their humour, their comradeship, their lively family pubs. There were some real characters about, and they all had one thing in common; they loved the East End they were born in, and would never leave it.

Cockney culture is a culture of small communities and large extended families - mum and dad, brothers and sisters, grandparents, aunties and uncles, cousins - several generations often under the same roof or living on the same street. Traditionally, these families were matriarchal in nature - breeding strong domineering resourceful women who ruled the roost in the family home and the wider community. The Eastenders character Lou Beale is a fictional representative of this type of East-end mother earth figure. EastEnders is a popular BBC television soap opera, first broadcast on 19 February 1985. ... Louise Lou Beale was a fictional character played by Anna Wing in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. ... Mother Earth is a common metaphorical expression for the Earth and its biosphere as the giver and sustainer of life. ...

Times were hard but the Cockney culture was one of survival and celebration. Christmases, Birthdays, Marriages - even Funerals - those were the good times, shared around the neighbourhood with the front-room, the sacred room, thrown open. Traditionally territorial, the Cockneys' families and their impoverished neighbourhoods was their territory and they guarded it with their lives. Outsiders and do-gooders weren't always welcome: these East-enders were going to make it their own way, and many would die trying.

• Pearly Kings and Queens

A Pearly King (feminine form Pearly Queen) is a person dressed in a traditional cockney costume covered in mother-of-pearl buttons. ...

London speech

Cockney speakers have a distinctive accent and dialect, and frequently use Cockney rhyming slang. There are also several borrowings from Yiddish, including kosher (originally Hebrew, via Yiddish, meaning legitimate) and shtumm (/ʃtʊm/ meaning quiet), as well as Romany, for example wonga (meaning money), and cushty (from the Romany kushtipen, meaning good). A fake Cockney accent, as used by some actors, is sometimes called 'Mockney'. Cockney rhyming slang is a form of English slang which originated in the East End of London. ... Yiddish (ייִדיש, Jiddisch) is a Germanic language spoken by about four million Jews throughout the world. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ...

Typical features of Cockney speech include:

• dropped H, as in not 'alf pronounced [aːf], ("not half")
• Diphthong shift of [iː] to [əi] (for example beet [bəiʔ]), [eɪ] to [aɪ] (for example bait [baɪʔ]), [aɪ] to [ɒɪ] (for example bite [bɒɪʔ]), and [ɔɪ] to [oɪ] (for example, boy [boɪ].
• merger of /θ/-zd- with /f/, and [ð]-d- with /v/, hence [mæfs] for ‘maths’, [bɒvə] for 'bother'.
• monophthongisation of /aʊ/ to [æː], hence [dæːn] for ‘down’
• use of a glottal stop for intervocalic 't', as in bottle or butter (but not when it precedes the stress, as in deter); it can also occur between other sonorants, as in mental or in Feltham (the h of which is silent even in RP)
• sometimes, use of a labiodental approximant [ʋ] for /r/, in contrast to an alveolar approximant [ɹ] in RP. To speakers who are not used to [ʋ], this can sound like a /w/.
• vocalisation of dark l, hence mɪowɔː for ‘Millwall’.
• Intrusive 'R' after a vowel, hence 'America-r-is' for 'America is'
• use of ain't instead of isn't, am not, are not, has not, and have not

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The lengthening of the vowel sound in (for example) grass (from [græs] to [graːs]) was a Cockney innovation which spread and by 1900 was used by many southern English accents. Most of the features mentioned above have in recent years partly spread into more general south-eastern speech, giving the accent called Estuary English); an Estuary speaker will use some but not all of the Cockney sounds. The characteristics of Cockney as opposed to Estuary are the dropping of H and grammatical features like the use of ain't. Estuary English is a name given to the form of English widely spoken in South East England, especially along the river Thames and its estuary. ...

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.

A television advertisement for Heineken beer in the 1980s showed a Sloane woman receiving elocution lessons in Cockney, parodying My Fair Lady. In the advert, she was being taught to say "The wa'er in Majorca don' taste like 'ow i' ough' a", but could only manage a posh rendition of "The water in Mallorca doesn't taste quite how it should" (until, of course, she drank the beer). Heineken (or Heineken Brouwerijen) is a Dutch beer brewer, established in 1863 when Gerard Adriaan Heineken purchased a brewery in Amsterdam. ... The 1980s decade refers to the years from 1980 to 1989, inclusive, informally sometimes including the years 1979, 1990 and 1991. ... The term Sloane Ranger (often pluralised to just Sloanes or Sloanies) originally referred to the lifestyle of young upper-middle class men and women living in west London. ... The original poster for the Broadway production of the show designed by Al Hirschfeld My Fair Lady is a 1956 musical theater production with lyrics and book by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederic Loewe. ... The origin of the word posh is obscure and unclear. ...

Today, the traditional form of Cockney rhyming slang seems to be dying out amongst young people, as it is being replaced with slang and patois brought to London by Afro-Caribbean and Bangladeshi immigrants, many of whom reside in the East End. However, some terms such as 'rabbit' (rabbit and pork = talk) are still in common usage. Slang is the use of highly informal words and expressions that are not considered standard in the speakers dialect or language. ... Patois, although without a formal definition in linguistics, can be used to describe a language considered as nonstandard. ... Afro-Caribbean may refer to: the British Afro-Caribbean community other members of the African diaspora in or from the Carribean This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ...

Drama and fiction

• Eliza Doolittle in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion (see also My Fair Lady)
• Fevvers in Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus (novel)
• William Somerset Maugham's novel Liza of Lambeth
• Me and My Girl (musical)
• EastEnders soap opera
• Guy Ritchie films, especially Snatch (see also Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels)
• Eliza Pinchley in Family Guy's spoof of My Fair Lady
• Tobias Ragg and the Beggar Woman in Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd
• Basher Tarr in the movie Ocean's Eleven
• Wilson in the movie The Limey
• Most characters in the musical and movie-musical Oliver!
• The Hitcher and his acomplices in The Mighty Boosh
• Sid, the caretaker in the hit British comedy series Mind Your Language.
• Rose Tyler, played by Billie Piper, in Doctor Who
• Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats.
• Most characters in the movie Green Street Hooligans
• Most characters in the movie To Sir, with Love
• Most characters in Harold Pinter's plays
• Most characters in the plays and fiction of Philip Ridley.

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Famous Londoners

• Alfie Bass (actor, born in Bethnal Green)
• Marc Bolan (singer, musician, born in Hackney)
• Bernard Bresslaw (actor, born in Stepney)
• Max Bygraves (Singer, songwriter and comedian, born in Rotherhithe)
• Michael Caine (Hollywood Film Star, born in Rotherhithe)
• George Carey (archbishop, born in Bow)
• Jack Cohen (founder of Tesco supermarket chain, born in Whitechapel)
• Windsor Davies (actor, born in Canning Town)
• Roger Delgado, (actor, born in Whitechapel)
• Bud Flanagan, (actor, comedian, and singer, born in Whitechapel)
• Samantha Fox (model/singer, born in Mile End) Note that she often pronounces her first name as "Samanfer", adding an "r"
• Kenny Jones (musician, born in Bow)
• Ronnie Lane (musician, born in Bow)
• Angela Lansbury (actress, born in Poplar)
• Vera Lynn (singer, born in East Ham)
• Steve Marriott (singer, musician, born in Bow
• Lenny McLean (bare knuckle/unlicensed boxer/actor, born in Hoxton). Also known as "The Guv'nor". Played 'Barry the Baptist' in Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
• Gary Oldman (actor, director born in New Cross)
• Philip Ridley (artist, writer, film maker, photographer born in Bethnal Green)
• Terence Stamp (actor, born in Stepney)
• Tommy Steele (singer and actor, born in Bermondsey)
• Barbara Windsor (actress, born in Shoreditch)
• Ray Winstone (actor, born in Hackney)
• Kray twins, Ronald and Reginald (gangsters, born in Hoxton)
• Chas and Dave (Chas Hodges and Dave Peacock; Cockney pop rock band, born Edmonton and Ponders End)
• Sir Alan Sugar (Businessman)

Alfie Bass as Mr. ... Bethnal Green is a place in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, in the heart of Londons East End. ... Mark Feld (September 30, 1947 – September 16, 1977), better known as Marc Bolan, was a singer and songwriter for the band Tyrannosaurus Rex (later called T. Rex), from 1967 until his death in a car crash in 1977. ... Hackney Town Hall was built in the 1930s for the old Metropolitan Borough. ... Bernard Bresslaw (February 25, 1934 - June 11, 1993) was an English actor who was trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. ... Stepney is a place in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. ... Max Bygraves - CD cover Max Bygraves OBE (born 16 October 1922 in Rotherhithe, London as Walter William Bygraves) is an English singer songwriter, famous for his waving hands. ... St Olavs, Rotherhithes Norwegian church. ... 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Famous Cockney performances

• Ronnie Barker as 'Fletch' in the TV comedy series Porridge
• Kathy Burke as 'Linda LaHughes' in comedy series Gimme Gimme Gimme
• Don Cheadle (presumably cockney) performance in Ocean's Eleven (2001)
• Ben Kingsley as 'Don Logan' in Sexy Beast (2000)
• Bob Hoskins as 'Harold Shand' in The Long Good Friday
• Warren Mitchell as Alf Garnett in Till Death Us Do Part
• Dick Van Dyke's infamous and much parodied attempt at a cockney accent in Mary Poppins
• Arthur English as 'Beverley Harmon' and Wendy Richard as 'Shirley Brahms' in comedy series Are You Being Served?
• Phil Daniels narrating on the title track of Blur's Parklife album
• Michael Caine in The Italian Job (original), and examples of cockney slang can be found in his performance with Mike Myers in "Austin Powers Goldmember", as well as his signature film, Alfie
• Eric Idle in the song Always Look on the Bright Side of Life (Life of Brian)

Ronnie Barker Ronald William George Barker OBE (September 25, 1929 – October 3, 2005), popularly known as Ronnie Barker and (as a writer) Gerald Wiley , was an English comic actor and writer. ... Norman Stanley Fletcher or Fletch (born February 2, 1932) is the main character in the popular BBC sitcom Porridge. ... Porridge is a British BBC television sitcom (1974–1977), written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais and starring Ronnie Barker. ... Kathy Burke (born June 13, 1964) is a British actress. ... Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight) is a song by ABBA. Gimme Gimme Gimme was a BBC television comedy by Tiger Productions that ran for 3 series between 1999 and 2001. ... Cheadle (right) and Sophie Okonedo in Hotel Rwanda. ... Oceans Eleven is a 2001 remake of the 1960 Rat Pack movie Oceans Eleven. ... Ben Kingsley Sir Ben Kingsley (born Krishna Bhanji on December 31, 1943) is an Academy Award-winning English actor. ... Sexy Beast (2000) is a British film directed by Jonathan Glazer, starring Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley and Ian McShane. ... Bob Hoskins Robert William Bob Hoskins (born October 26, 1942) is a British actor best known for playing Cockney rough diamonds and gangsters, and for family films such as Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988, Eddie Valiant). ... The Long Good Friday (1980) is a British gangster film starring Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren. ... Warren Mitchell, (born 14 January 1926, Stoke Newington, London) is a British-born actor with Australian citizenship. ... Alf Garnett was a fictional character on the BBC television sitcom Til Death Us Do Part and later In Sickness and in Health. ... Til Death Us Do Part (also known as Till Death Us do Part)1 was a BBC television sitcom series written by Johnny Speight that ran from 1964 until 1974. ... Richard Wayne Van Dyke (born December 13, 1925 in West Plains, Missouri), usually credited as Dick Van Dyke, is a famous American television and movie actor. ... Mary Poppins is a 1964] feature film based on the Mary Poppins series of childrens books written by P. L. Travers and illustrated by Mary Shepard. ... Arthur English (May 9, 1919 – April 16, 1995) was a British comedian from the music hall tradition. ... Wendy Richard MBE (born Wendy Emerton on July 20, 1943 in Middlesbrough, England) is a British actress. ... Are You Being Served? was a British sitcom broadcast from 1972 to 1985. ... Phil Daniels(left) & Damon Albarn(Blur), 1995 Phil Daniels (born 25 October 1958) is a British actor. ... Parklife is a Britpop album by the band Blur, released on April 25, 1994. ... Michael Caine as Alfred Pennyworth in Batman Begins Sir Maurice Joseph Micklewhite, CBE (born 14 March 1933), known professionally as Sir Michael Caine, is a two-time Oscar-winning English film actor. ... The Italian Job is a British comedy caper film, written by Troy Kennedy Martin, produced by Michael Deeley and directed by Peter Collinson. ... Austin Powers in Goldmember is a 2002 comedy film. ... The cover to the VHS of Alfie Alfie is a 1966 film starring Michael Caine. ... Eric Idle (born March 29, 1943) is an English comedian, actor and film director, as well as an author and guitarist/songwriter. ... The 1991 reissue of Always Look on the Bright Side of Life Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life is a popular song written by Eric Idle which originally featured in the 1979 film Monty Pythons Life of Brian and has gone on to become a common singalong... Life of Brian is a film from 1979 by Monty Python which deals with the life of Brian (played by Graham Chapman), a young man born at the nearly the same time as, and in a manger right down the street from Jesus. ...

See also

• British English
• Languages of the United Kingdom
• London words

Dialect areas of England British English (BrE) is a term used to differentiate between the form of the English language used in the British Isles and those used elsewhere. ... The United Kingdom has no official language. ...

External links

• [1] from Grose's 1811 dictionary