Rhyming slang is a form of phrase construction in the English language and is especially prevalent in dialectal English from the East End of London ; hence the alternative name, Cockney rhyming slang ( or CRS ).

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, rather than the lesser known St Mary-le-Bow church.

Recent linguistic research suggests that today, certain elements of Cockney English are declining in usage within the East End of London and the accent has migrated to Outer London and the Home Counties: in London's East End, some traditional features of Cockney have been displaced by a Jamaican Creole-influenced variety popular among young Londoners ( sometimes referred to as " Jafaican "), particularly, though far from exclusively, those of Afro-Caribbean descent.

On the other hand, however, there started rising at the same time cries in defence of Cockney as, for example the following one: " The London dialect is really, especially on the South side of the Thames, a perfectly legitimate and responsible child of the old kentish tongue the dialect of London North of the Thames has been shown to be one of the many varieties of the Midland or Mercian dialect, flavoured by the East Anglian variety of the same speech ".

Studies have indicated that the heavy use of South East English accents on television and radio may be the cause of the spread of Cockney English since the 1960s.

Th-fronting, L-vocalization and T glottalization can now be found in every county of England ( with L-vocalization being largely absent from Northern England ), whereas before the 1960s the only Cockney feature that was common to all of England, except for much of East Anglia, North East England, Yorkshire and Lancashire was H-dropping.

He was born in Whitechapel, in the East End of London — Delgado often remarked to Doctor Who actor Jon Pertwee, a close friend, that this made him a true Cockney, as he was born within the sound of the Bow bells — although his mother was Belgian and his father Spanish.

Cockney Rejects are an English punk rock band that formed in the East End of London in 1978.

Wicks was a Cockney born into a poor, working-class family in London's East End near London Bridge.

A Cockney born in London's East End neighborhood, McCarter is a former SAS operator who participated in the Iranian Embassy Siege and spent a tour of duty in Vietnam as a " special observer ".

Although traditionally stigmatised as typical of a Cockney accent, this pronunciation is fairly widespread, and has recently been an increasingly noticeable feature of the Estuary English accent of South East England.

Cockney is an accent traditionally from the working classes of the areas immediately surrounding the City of London ( most famously including the East End ).

Residents of places within Essex such as Basildon and Grays are more likely to have an accent similar to the traditional ' Cockney ' accent, due to the proximity to East London and East End migration to these areas since WWII.

The play, by Frank Norman, himself a Cockney, has music and lyrics by Lionel Bart, who also grew up in London's East End.

In Australia and South Africa, the colloquial term " China " is derived from " mate " rhyming with " China plate " ( the identical form, heard in expressions like " me old China " is also a long-established Cockney idiom ).

In modern literature, Cockney rhyming slang is used frequently in the novels and short stories of Kim Newman, for instance in the short story collections " The Man from the Diogenes Club " ( 2006 ) and " Secret Files of the Diogenes Club " ( 2007 ), where it is explained at the end of each book.

" Oi " was first documented in the 1930s and is particularly associated with working class and Cockney speech.

The name is partly derived from the Cockney Rejects ' habit of shouting " Oi!

as a musical genre is said to come from the band Cockney Rejects and journalist Garry Bushell, who championed the genre in Sounds magazine.

The use of coded languages like verlan is uncommon in English-speaking countries, but similar manners of speaking, such as Cockney rhyming slang, Pig Latin or " backslang ", are used in English-speaking cultures ( see Language game ).

In Cockney rhyming slang, bread means money ; this usage is derived from the phrase " bread and honey ".

In Cockney rhyming slang a Yank is a Septic ( as in Septic Tank ).

" 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 ".

A common view is that in order to be a Cockney, one must have been born within earshot of the Bow Bells.

" The Borough " to the south of Waterloo, London and Tower Bridge were also considered Cockney before redevelopment all but extinguished the local working class areas, and now Bermondsey is the only Cockney area south of the Thames, although Pearly Kings and Queens can be found as far out as Peckham and Penge.

A fake Cockney accent is sometimes called " Mockney ".

* As with many accents of England, Cockney is non-rhotic.

A final-er is pronounced or lowered in broad Cockney.

Also, in broad Cockney at least, the degree of aspiration is typically greater than in RP, and may often also involve some degree of affrication.

Sivertsen considers that is to some extent a stylistic marker of emphasis in Cockney.

** is on occasion somewhat fronted and / or lightly rounded, giving Cockney variants such as,.

It is now well-established in all kinds of London-flavoured accents, from broad Cockney to near-RP.

** In broad Cockney, and to some extent in general popular London speech, a vocalised is entirely absorbed by a preceding: i. e., salt and sort become homophones ( although the contemporary pronunciation of salt would prevent this from happening ), and likewise fault-fought-fort, pause-Paul's, Morden-Malden, water-Walter.

That is, if you were to rely on what was said of Keats by most established critics ( critics now remembered principally for their injustice to one of the greatest English writers ), you would present the author of ` Ode to a Nightingale ' as a presumptuous ` Cockney poet ' whose works were ` driveling idiocy.

I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now ; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Many locations have been displaced and reduced to islands, including Oxford University and the London borough of Deptford, which is now in the Indonesian Ocean as a part of the Cockney Islands.

He now plays keyboards, for Cockney Rebel and his own world music band, Talking Spirit, and works with disaffected inner city children.

Giles, now as his teenage Cockney personality " Ripper ," invites Joyce out for some fun.

Calder examined how the German bombings generated ideas and images of plucky and stoical suffering and resistance that defined post-war Britain's sense of itself ; but it also showed that the " chirpy Cockney ", " all pull together " stereotypes were partly propaganda which hid the reality of an inequality of suffering due to deep social divisions, and concealed unheroic stories of opportunistic looting and rape.

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.

They could speak, and used a debased form of Westron ( rendered into Cockney English in The Hobbit ).

For the 1947 English-language edition, the translators made use of an accurate phonetic transcription of the London Cockney dialect, transmogrified into a Native South American-looking language by an exotic-looking orthography and scattered apostrophes.

He threw himself into the social life with gusto and enjoyed singing Victorian ballads over a " couple of pints " with a Cockney accent.

Eric Bristow MBE (" The Crafty Cockney ") ( born 25 April 1957 ) is an English darts player, whose skill at the game in the 1980s helped turn it into a worldwide spectator sport.

Folds abruptly replaces Shatner's voice with that of " bitter Cockney " singer Joe Jackson, and then alternates and blends the two into a duet, bringing along a large chorus of young voices on the line " sing along with the common people ", which finally replace Shatner and Jackson's vocals in the song's concluding crescendo.

He would, however, suddenly realise that he hadn't thought it through and drop into a guttural Cockney bellow, shouting " my wife's gonna KILL me !!!.