Cockney: The Language of The Gods

[Strike For The South]

Best slang ever. Im going to start talking like a working class Londener

[The_Doctor]

Scouse is much better.

And it is named after food, not a part of the body.:laugh4:

Anyway, what is wrong with Texan?

[scooter_the_shooter]

Best slang ever. Im going to start talking like a working class Londener


Did ya' just see Green Street Hooligans or something? (great movie btw I even went out and bought it)

(wether that was cockney in the movie or not I do not know, but the brits sound classy when they cuss compared to us yanks...it's the only thing they have better then us)

[BDC]

Sadly there is not a soul in the world who actually speaks it really anymore. Blame immigration, internal movements and American tv for that...

[Pannonian]

Sadly there is not a soul in the world who actually speaks it really anymore. Blame immigration, internal movements and American tv for that...
Isn't estuary ("es-jurry") the culprit?

[Strike For The South]

No it was on Beerfest

[lancelot]

Sadly there is not a soul in the world who actually speaks it really anymore. Blame immigration, internal movements and American tv for that...

The occasional phrase still manages to pop in there when I speak...then I shudder...



@SFTS- for your consideration- (the movie Lock, Stock and two smoking barrels is full of the stuff)

Tomorrow, Im gonna get up, have a cup of Rosie, go out and get my barnet sorted and then go see me ol china... :beam:

Decipher at your leisure...~:)

[Tribesman]

Tomorrow, Im gonna get up, have a cup of Rosie
wouldn't you prefer a giggle ?

[Peasant Phill]

The only cockney I remember is: bristols = titties. I learned it from my English teacher in High school.

Cockney, completly incomprehensible when your not a local. The best language there is.

[Vladimir]

A dead language you say? Wasn't the Bible recently "translated" into Cockney?

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

No it was on Beerfest

Warning-if this was an American film, what you heard most likely didn't even resemble Cockney. NB-Mary Poppins.

[naut]

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, as lancelot said will give you some good/funny Cockney.


Tomorrow, Im gonna get up, have a cup of Rosie, go out and get my barnet sorted and then go see me ol china
Tea, hair and a mate. Sounds like bloomin' fun an' frolics. ~;)

[Red Peasant]

Most people from southeast England sound Cockneyish to us northerners, and I've even mistaken Aussies for Cockneys. Awful accent ~;)

[naut]

Awful accent ~;)
Aye, you got that right.

Yorkshire, now there's a dialect.

[InsaneApache]

Did someone call? :phonecall: :horn:

[The_Doctor]

Did someone call?

I thought you where from Manchester?

[Red Peasant]

I thought you where from Manchester?

Only when it suits him ... one of the benefits of dual nationality :laugh4:

[English assassin]

Best slang ever. Im going to start talking like a working class Londener

Given that most working class londoners seem to want to sound American you probably already do...

Or, for the Londoners amongst us: Would you adam and eve it, the saucepans all saand like bleeding shermans naa.

(c) Mr Dick Van Dyke Ithenkyew