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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The Cockney slang would soon follow suit, spreading among people living in the area. However, the phrase is now used more loosely to describe people who usually hail from London and know at least ...

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 ...

British musician Steve Harley, whose glam-rock band Cockney Rebel had an enduring hit with the song “Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me),” has died. He was 73.

Conan O’Brien, master of the bad Cockney accent, teamed with Chris Martin for a chimney sweep-styled take on Coldplay‘s “Yellow” on Thursday’s Conan. The hilarious performance arose ...

Cockney identity was deeply embedded in East London for a long time, but it has now spread much farther. The story of pie and mash begins in the mid-19th century, when shipping docks opened in ...