Editing Cockney (section)

{{short description|Accent and dialect of English spoken in London}}
{{Other uses}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}}
{{Use British English|date=January 2015}}
{{Infobox language
| name             = Cockney
| fam7             = [[British English]]
| image            = 
| map              = 
| ethnicity        = 
| notice           = IPA
| glotto           = none
| isoexception     = dialect
| ancestor3        = [[Early Modern English]]
| ancestor2        = [[Middle English]]
| ancestor         = [[Old English]]
| fam6             = [[English language|English]]
| native name       = 
| fam5             = [[Anglic languages|Anglic]]
| fam4             = [[Ingvaeonic]]
| fam3             = [[West Germanic]]
| fam2             = [[Germanic languages|Germanic]]
| familycolor      = Indo-European
| script           = [[Latin script|Latin]] ([[English alphabet]])
| speakers         = 
| region           = [[London]] ([[Middlesex]], [[Essex]], [[Hertfordshire]], [[Kent]], [[Surrey]])
| states           = [[England]]
| altname          = Cockney dialect
}}
{{Listen|filename=Danny Baker BBC Radio4 Desert Island Discs 31 Jul 2007 b012wcl4.flac|title={{center|Example of a Cockney accent}}|type=speech|description={{center|Voice of [[Danny Baker]], who grew up in [[Bermondsey]], London, [[:File:Danny Baker BBC Radio4 Desert Island Discs 31 Jul 2007 b012wcl4.flac|recorded July 2007]] from the [[BBC Radio 4]] programme ''[[Desert Island Discs]]''}}}}
{{Listen|filename=Michael Caine BBC Radio4 Front Row 29 Sept 2010 b00tyv8c.flac|title={{center|Example of a Cockney accent}}|type=speech|description={{center|Voice of [[Michael Caine]], who grew up in [[Southwark]], London, [[:File:Michael Caine BBC Radio4 Front Row 29 Sept 2010 b00tyv8c.flac|recorded September 2010]] from the BBC Radio 4 programme ''[[Front Row (radio programme)|Front Row]]''}}}}

'''Cockney''' is a [[dialect]] of the [[English language]], mainly spoken in [[London]] and its environs, particularly by Londoners with [[working-class]] and [[lower middle class]] roots. The term ''Cockney'' is also used as a [[demonym]] for a person from the [[East End]],<ref>Green, Jonathon [http://public.oed.com/aspects-of-english/english-in-use/cockney/ "Cockney"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140706212116/http://public.oed.com/aspects-of-english/english-in-use/cockney/ |date=6 July 2014 }}. ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]''. Retrieved 10 April 2017.</ref><ref>Miller, Marjorie (8 July 2001). [https://www.chicagotribune.com/2001/07/08/say-what-londons-cockney-culture-looks-a-bit-different/ "Say what? London's cockney culture looks a bit different"]. ''[[Chicago Tribune]]''.</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Oakley |first=Malcolm |date=30 September 2013 |url=https://www.eastlondonhistory.co.uk/history-east-end-cockney/ |title=History of The East London Cockney |website=East London History |url-status=live |archive-date=29 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230429150036/https://www.eastlondonhistory.co.uk/history-east-end-cockney/ }}</ref> or, traditionally, born within earshot of [[Bow Bells]].<ref name="phrase" /><ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Cockney|volume=6|page=627}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Cockney {{!}} Accent, Rhyming Slang, & Facts {{!}} Britannica|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Cockney|access-date=2022-01-31|website=www.britannica.com|language=en|archive-date=12 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112013909/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Cockney|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Estuary English]] is an intermediate accent between Cockney and [[Received Pronunciation]], also widely spoken in and around London, as well as in wider South Eastern England.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/estuary/ee-faqs-jcw.htm |title=Estuary English Q and A – JCW |publisher=Phon.ucl.ac.uk |access-date=2010-08-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100111062912/http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/estuary/ee-faqs-jcw.htm |archive-date=11 January 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Roach|first1=Peter|title=English Phonetics and Phonology|date=2009|publisher=Cambridge|isbn=978-0-521-71740-3|page=4}}</ref><ref>{{Citation
| last=Trudgill
| first=Peter
| year=1999
| title=The Dialects of England
| page=80
| publisher=Wiley
| edition=2nd
| isbn=0-631-21815-7
}}</ref> In [[multicultural]] areas of London, the Cockney dialect is, to an extent, being replaced by [[Multicultural London English]]—a new form of speech with significant Cockney influence.