Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The term Cockney has traditionally been used to describe a person from the East End, or born within earshot of Bow Bells Saif ...

Alfie and Kat from the BBC soap, Eastenders. Yvonne and Alice discuss a type of English called Cockney that some people speak in East London. In this programme, they listen to some examples of Cockney ...

The pearly king of Woolwich and his mouse turned heads at the Modern Cockney Festival The Modern Cockney Festival concluded recently with the dialect being officially recognised as a community ...

How did we get the phrase “use your loaf”, meaning “use your head”? Well, it dates to the late-19th century, and is drawn from Cockney rhyming slang; in which head, is “loaf of bread”. Cockney vendors ...

At one cash machine in East London, you'll have to know a bit of cockney to get money for your pocket, or "moolah for ya sky rocket." The cockney dialect employs rhyming slang, which changes a common ...

A group of east Londoners have called for Cockney to be recognised as an official language. Multi-cultural group Cockney Culture launched a petition that called on Tower Hamlets council to help ...