The Cheat Sheet

‘My Fair Lady’: Audrey Hepburn’s Cockney Accent Was ‘Too Thick’ to Understand at First

Of course, Hepburn’s singing was dubbed inadequate for My Fair Lady and while the actor still recorded all the songs herself, another singer’s voice was utilized for the majority of the film. But ...
Reuters

"Jafaican" sounds replace Cockney patter in London

LONDON (Reuters) - A London arts centre is compiling an archive of poetry and phrases in the city's historic Cockney dialect as a study shows the accent is being driven out of the capital by the ...
JD Supra

What does your accent say about you?

Would you change your accent to be accepted, or to gain an advantage? Absolutely! Back in the day when I was a teenager, I endlessly practised a “cockney” accent to get in with a crowd of boys, one of ...
The Conversation

The cockney dialect is not dead – it’s just called ‘Essex’ now

Amanda Cole does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
The Conversation

Barbara Windsor: you’re more likely to hear a cockney accent in Essex than east London now

Amanda Cole received funding from the University of Essex Doctoral Scholarship as well as ESSEXLab seedcorn funding. Or maybe you think of Dame Barbara Windsor, who died on December 9. She was a ...