As alarmist headlines go, they were pretty puzzling. “Teenagers Aren’t Bobby Moore About Their Ruby Murrays and Their Rosie Lee,” fretted one British tabloid this week. “Is Cockney Rhyming ...

Given that rhyming slang is so intertwined with the Cockney image, the London East End image, I’m sure that that’s the right one. But the interesting thing is that you actually had a moment of ...

Werner said that Cockney slang, popularized in everything from Dickens novels to the BBC soap EastEnders, evolved in the 19th century partially as a means to speak in code.

LONDON — The East End’s Eliza Doolittles have long since moved away--not to rural Hertford, Hereford and Hampshire, mind you, but to suburban Essex and Kent, where their cockney rhyming slang ...

Glottal stops: Cockney accents are notorious for glottal stops, which are the “uh” sounds that replace consonants. In particular, it’s common to drop the “h” at the beginning of a word ...

I don’t expect we’re going to see a DVD-driven resurgence of the Cockney crime thriller, or even greater popularity for difficult films. But Layer Cake does suggest something that has not been ...

Ever wonder how hard it would be to master a Cockney English accent? With an audition less than a day away, actor Marty is up to the challenge! Watch as dialect coach Page Clements teaches him a ...