https://padlet.com/Marcaissolene/slxa0kyvlh1e About London and londoners en-us 2018-05-06 22:25:12 UTC 2024-06-01 13:26:37 UTC hello@padlet.com Marcaissolene https://padlet.com/Marcaissolene/slxa0kyvlh1e/wish/258352530 Firsly, this document is a video called "Learn the cockney accent with Jason Statham" from the Youtube channel Learn English with Papa Teach Me.
 
 It starts with a joke saying that they couldn't afford the actual actor and got a cheap replacement.
 The "cheap replacement" shows up acting like Jason Statham on a black and white screen.
 
 Then, he explains that cockney was first a pejorative term for the working class. It is now used as a term to describe the real accent only Londoners have.
 He then cites the example of Michael Caine as someone who is a true Londoner.
 
 To continue, he explains the different rules you have to follow to speak with a proper Cockney accent. He mentions the "uh" sound that is pronounced "ah" in words like Doctor for example.
 Moreover, the man says Londoners don't pronounce the Hs at the beggining of words whereas other would emphasize them in words such as Who, House, How, His...
 He also says L sounds can be pronounced as W as in Phil, Ill, Pill and others.
 There are other things like the Glottal T, which sounds like the letter T was replaced by the sound "Uh" such as in Bottle, Water, Lighter...
 He mentions other rules like the TH being pronounced as V or F sounds.
 
 The man talking says that to speak with a proper Cockney accent, we have to use the sides of the mouth to produce sounds.
 
 An other point to remember that we are not used to hear when someone speaks english, is the word My being replaced my Me as in "My head hurts" being transformed into "Me head hurts".
 We are told that in cockney accent, it happens that the negative words are doubled like "I ain't got none" and third persons are used in reverse like "You wasn't even there".
 
 Therefore, the man imitating the Cockney accent then gives a list of words used in the Cockney accent. For example, my missus which means my wife, girlfriend; fit which means attractive; minger for ugly; dosh or dough used to talk about money or even up the duff used to say pregnant.
 
 Londoners also keep asking a questions that sounds like "(D)Y'na'mean?" which is short for "Do you know what I mean?"
 
 The man then finishes the video by giving examples of sentences to pronounce and leaves to let the video end.]]> 2018-05-06 22:33:18 UTC https://padlet.com/Marcaissolene/slxa0kyvlh1e/wish/258352530