Cockney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The term Cockney , has both geographical and linguistic associations. Geographically and culturally, it often refers to working class Londoners, particularly those in the East End. Linguistically, i...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockney
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Me with a Cockney accent. Don't forget to check the introduction and the other ... you make this vid and put it on here. you sound nothing like a cockney ...
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijr9lU2J2Wk
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The standard American doesn't sound awful to me but it still doesn't sound native either. I guess non-British people would hear something a bit off with the cockney accent but not realise how awful that is either...
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www.englishforums.com/English/ListenAwfulAmericanAccent...
www.englishforums.com/English/ListenAwfulAmericanAccent/dwbxr/post.htm
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wikiHow article about How to Develop a British Accent if You Are American. ... However, bear in mind that this rule isn't universal in the British English accent. Rougher accents, such as the Cockney accent, sound very different. For example, the Cockney accent generally drops the "h" sound.
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www.wikihow.com/Develop-a-British-Accent-if-You-Are-Ame...
www.wikihow.com/Develop-a-British-Accent-if-You-Are-American
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You may have heard a Cockney accent (east end of London). This accent is increasingly more unusual in the 21st century but if you were try to imitate one, notice that they almost sing words and they almost replace vowels and remove letters, e.g. the a in "change", would be an "i" sound.
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www.wikihow.com/Speak-in-a-British-Accent
www.wikihow.com/Speak-in-a-British-Accent
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The Cockney Accent or dialect is chiefly characterized by the following ... The Cockney accent sounds positively cosmopolitan compared to the Pikey accent ...
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www.squidoo.com/cockney
www.squidoo.com/cockney
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While many Londoners may speak what is referred to as "popular London" (Wells 1982b) they do not necessarily speak Cockney. The popular Londoner accent can be distinguished from Cockney in a number of ways, and can also be found outside of the capital, unlike the true Cockney accent.
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www.ic.arizona.edu/~lsp/CockneyEnglish.html
www.ic.arizona.edu/~lsp/CockneyEnglish.html
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• CUSTOM CDS of some accent examples not in the published collections. The following accents are available; Texas: Panhandle, Dallas, Houston, Austin; Devon, Cornwall, Suffolk, Boston Brahmin, Boston (Dorchester) Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine, Kansas, New Jersey, Nova Scotia, Barbados, Estuary (male).
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Subject: Re: To people outside the US: what things about the American accent sound funny? ... ; Never been to the U.S. so I couldn't really compare the various accents first-hand. I can sort of recognise the Borstan accent, though...
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www.inthe00s.com/archive/askme/smf/1146952284.shtml
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