cockneys in English

noun
1
a native of East London, traditionally one born within hearing of Bow Bells.
A cockney by birth, he signed for United as a trainee in 1991.

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1. The word hour is written with a silent aitch. Cockneys drop their Aitches.

2. Let me hear the most refined of Cockneys presume to find fault with Yorkshire manners!

3. 30 Let me hear the most refined of Cockneys presume to find fault with Yorkshire manners!

4. Children climb about its walls and windows; cockneys scratch their names, and picnic parties Bestrew the grass with paper

5. However, technically speaking there can be no Cockneys born after 1945 since the bells were destroyed by German bombs during WWII

6. Few people know that large numbers of the splendid seamen who man our North Sea fishing fleets are Arrant Cockneys

7. Damien writhed in anger as he stood penned in the bus shelter like an animal, with this herd of obnoxious Cockneys.

8. The Cockney returns to the stage as he had left it and the best Elizabethan stage-Cockneys were the product of the conflict between the City and the stage

9. Cockneys traditionally speak in a rhyming slang which supposedly originated among barrow boys who didn't want their customers to understand what they said to each other.

10. Yes, Cockney rhyming slang is a foreign language to most people, so I thought I'd let you in on the secret and help non-Cockneys translate some of our favourite London sayings

11. It is typically associated with working class citizens of London, who were called Cockneys, and it contains several distinctive traits that are known to many English speakers, as the dialect is rather famous.

12. Originally a pejorative term applied to all city-dwellers, it was eventually restricted to Londoners and particularly to the "Bow-bell Cockneys": those born within earshot of Bow Bells, the bells of St Mary-le-Bow in the Cheapside district of the City of London.