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Silvia Bruno
Jan 29, 2012 By jonathan

Hot on the heels of our success with our Top 100 Best British Slang Phrases, we thought we’d explore the beauty of Cockney Rhyming Slang next.

It remains a matter of speculation whether rhyming slang was a linguistic accident, a game, or a cryptolect developed intentionally to confuse non-locals. If deliberate, it may also have been used to maintain a sense of community. Another suggestion is that it may have been used by criminals (see thieves’ cant) to confuse the police.

Here’s an interesting lesson on the slang from locals in London:

We have just selected some of them.

1. Adam and Eve – believe

2. Alan Whickers – knickers

3. apples and pears – stairs

4. Artful Dodger – lodger

5. Ascot Races – braces

6. Aunt Joanna – piano

7. Baked Bean – Queen

8. Baker’s Dozen – Cousin

9. Ball and Chalk – Walk

10. Barnaby Rudge – Judge

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Cockney Rhyming SlangCockney rhyming slang, where a word is substituted with a word or, more commonly, a phrase that sounds the same, is a feature of the English spoken in London, although rhyming slang is also found in many other dialects of English. Silvia Bruno

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Cockney Rhyming SlangCockney rhyming slang, where a word is substituted with a word or, more commonly, a phrase that sounds the same, is a feature of the English spoken in London, although rhyming slang is also found in many other dialects of English. Silvia Bruno

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https://www.usingenglish.com/articles/mockney-estuary-cockney-english.html
http://studyingenglishaccents.blogspot.com/2015/12/cockney-accent.html

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Different  English accents: Watch the video and see people’s perceptionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0lZ4i37RrM

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Different  English accents: Watch the video and see people’s perceptionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0lZ4i37RrM

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Silvia Bruno

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Learn the Cockney accent with Jason Statham

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Some key differences between RP and Estuary English:

Estuary English is an accent spoken in the South of England, but it is not cockney and is not RP either. It is in between. It is called ´Estuary English ‘because it is used around the river Thames. RP is considered as a model accent but the truth is that a lot of native speakers in the South of England tend to switch constantly between RP and an accent closer to Estuary.
There are some key differences between them, for example:

1) Glottal Stop
By speaking through the Received Pronunciation the speaker can produce a glottal stop (the tongue touches the alveolar ridge while speakers produce a /t/ sound. On the contrary in Estuary English the glottal stop will appear at the end of syllables.

2) Dark /l/
In RP a /l/ sound that appears at the end of a syllable will produce a dark /l/ sound /l̴/. This is to say, the tongue is raised at the back of the mouth as well as touching the alveolar ridge. It gives a soft sound –like in ‘ball‘ /bɔ:l̴/ and ‘feel‘ /fi:l̴/.
According to Estuary English dark /l/ does not exist. It sound is replaced by a syllable final /w/ sound instead. So ‘ball’ sounds like /bɔ:w/ and ´feel´ would be /fi:w/.

3) Intrusive /r/
An RP speaker would not add an /r/ sound in order to connect two different words but an Estuary speaker tends to use intrusive /r/ making all sounds join together.

4) The /h/ sound
In RP the speaker wouldn´t drop an /h/ sound, for example in ´hat´they pronounce it as /hæt/. But an Estuary speaker would certainly drop the /h/ in function words, for example ´hat´ sounds like /æʔ/

To listen to the different pronunciations through audios
https://pronunciationstudio.com/received-pronunciation-vs-estuary/

Daniela Struzzi

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The musical My Fair Lady (1964) portrays the way in which pronunciation is considered the most significant aspect in establishing social class: RP English is the “correct pronunciation and grammar” in the UK.

At the beginning of the 20th Century, a professor of phonetics and a friend bet that he could teach anyone to speak like a member of the royalty. The friend selects a poor flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, who has a strong Cockney accent that stops her from working at a proper flower shop.

diphthong alteration /eɪ/ → [aɪ]  +   dropping of  /h/  +   dropping of  /v/  in “of”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJr9SSJKkII

“ng” /ŋ/ is pronounced as “n” /n/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r86BJkLZp9w&feature=youtu.be

insertion of  /r/  →  “lovely”  to   “loverly”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5fW7sERw7I&index=2&list=RDq5Sq1Pax7h8

vowels  “a” /eɪ/ → [aɪ]      “e”  /i:/ → [əi]      “i”   “o”  /əʊ/ → [aʊ]   “u”

Ileana Baudi

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ANTHONY HOPKINS RP

“A picture is worth a thousand words"

RECEIVED PRONUNCIATION

RP pronunciation is related to rich and educated people in ruling places as against poor or working class, uneducated people.

The speech pattern may be traced back to south-east Midlands (Oxford, London and Cambridge) intonations and was associated to “The Establishment.” The BBC adopted RP in 1922 for convenience purposes, as some people think (regional accents may alienate some listeners) and it continued to prevail for many years.
http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/find-out-more/received-pronunciation/

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http://theday.co.uk/health/expert-demands-legal-protection-for-accents

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JASON STATHAM COCKNEY

Now, let’s take a look at cockney. Please, click on the link below

COKNEY

An actor plays the role of the popular action movies actor Jason Statham and give us some insights about a popular intonation pattern, the cockney intonation.

To most outsiders a Cockney is anyone from London, though contemporary natives of London, especially from its East End, use the word with pride. In its geographical and cultural senses, Cockney is best defined as a person born within hearing distance of the church bells of St. Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside, in the City of London. The sound of the Bow Bells reached about 6 miles (10 km) to the east, 5 miles (8 km) to the north, 4 miles (6 km) to the west, and 3 miles (5 km) to the south.

Cockney is considered as opposed to RP since it is an intonation of the working class.
https://www.eastlondonhistory.co.uk/history-east-end-cockney/

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British linguist David Rosewarne created the term "Estuary English" in 1984. He detected the occurrence of a new variety, mostly amongst young people, and those who “unconsciously want to improve their pronunciation towards RP (to gain higher status), but want to preserve their linguistic identity at the same time”. (Rosewarne: 1984).
Estuary English is spreading rapidly because it is very versatile and attractive for its speakers. It is not perceived as “low working class” (cockney), nor “snob” (RP).

Ileana Baudi

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Sil B http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3946

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In 2009 Times Talks interviewed Michael Caine, an actor who is a native speaker of Cockney English. He decided to keep his native accent in order to make an announcement about England's social system. According to him, it was to support people from working-class backgrounds to affirm that they could be successful, without regard of the way they speak.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBjp1oEZcwU

Daniela Struzzi

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The phrase Received Pronunciation was coined in 1869 by the linguist, A J Ellis, but it only became a widely used term used to describe the accent of the social elite after the phonetician, Daniel Jones, adopted it for the second edition of the English Pronouncing Dictionary (1924). RP was first used in universities and on ruling places.
http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/find-out-more/received-pronunciation/

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RP has some varieties known as Conservative RP, Mainstream RP and Contemporary RP. Conservative RP refers to a very traditional variety particularly associated with older speakers and the aristocracy. Mainstream RP describes an accent that we might consider extremely neutral in terms of signals regarding age, occupation or lifestyle of the speaker while Contemporary RP refers to speakers using features typical of younger RP speakers.
http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/find-out-more/received-pronunciation/

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RP was and is presented as the standard pronunciation for british people since it is used in dictionaries, schools, business and government places. RP is only spoken by a minority intended to establish their power and it is devoid of regional accents.
http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/find-out-more/received-pronunciation/

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Originally, Cockney has had a pejorative connotation, originally deriving from cokenay, or cokeney, a late Middle English word of the 14th century that meant, literally, “cocks’ egg” (i.e., a small or defective egg, imagined to come from a rooster—which, of course, cannot produce eggs). That negative sense gave rise to Cockney’s being used to mean “milksop” or “cockered child” (a pampered or spoiled child). The word was later applied to a town resident who was regarded as either affected or puny.
http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/find-out-more/received-pronunciation/

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How to Speak with a Cockney Accent

Drop the letters “t” and “k” from the middle of words. A glottal stop is the linguistic term for dropping the sound of the letter “t” from the middle of a word. You can do the same with the letter “k” in the middle of a word, as well.[1]

"Scottish," for instance, would be pronounced "Sco’ish."

“Blackboard” becomes “bla’board.”

https://www.wikihow.com/Speak-with-a-Cockney-Accent

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How to Speak with a Cockney Accent

Drop the “h” from the beginning of words. The Cockney accent doesn’t put emphasis on the “h” sound when it is the first letter in a word. So, for example, pronounce “herb” as "erb," "horse" as "orse," and "hopefully" as "opefully."
https://www.wikihow.com/Speak-with-a-Cockney-Accent

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How to Speak with a Cockney Accent

Don't pronounce the “r” at the end of words. Like most English accents, a Cockney accent drops the “r” from the end of a word. For example, "mother" becomes "mo-thah," and "car" becomes "cah.
https://www.wikihow.com/Speak-with-a-Cockney-Accent

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How to Speak with a Cockney Accent

Pronounce the short “a” as "ah." The typical short “a” sound is evidenced by the word “cat.” Change your short “a” to sound more like the “a” in "father," for words with a short “a” sound in the middle, like "bath" and "can't.

https://www.wikihow.com/Speak-with-a-Cockney-Accent

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Substitute an “l” for a “w” at the end of words. When an “l” sound is at the end of a word, you can substitute the “l” for a vowel sound, like “w.” For instance, “pal” would sound like “pow,” and “trouble” becomes “trou-bow.
https://www.wikihow.com/Speak-with-a-Cockney-Accent
Silvia Bruno