Originally Posted by
DianneWoollie
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My late Dad was a cockney but came from a middle class family.
To Minx... being a cockney in truth is born within the sound of Bow Bells..the Church Bells of Bow an area, you just had to be within the distance of hearing them. So how you speak as a cockney is not all the same for sure.
copied and pasted a few for you Minx..
"Apples and pears" (stairs) ...
"Army and navy" (gravy) ...
"Basin of gravy" (baby) ...
"Bees and honey" (money) ...
"Borrow and beg" (egg) ...
"Bottle and stopper" (copper) ...
"Box of toys" (noise) ...
"Can't keep still" (treadmill)
just slang words....
My Husband is from the East End of London, Walthamstow to be exact as were his French and British Ancestors, but he is not a cockney. He is an Ancestor of Huguenots, a strict religious protestant group from France.
He does speak differently from me though. I speak with a South London accent..Not easy is it Minx..same in France...we have locals that actually cannot communicate with each other as there dialect is so so different.