I have noticed a lot of people using the term 'a cockney accent' - as far as I'm aware Cockney means a dialect of rhyming slang - not an accent.
I'm from London born and bred (about 5 miles from the bells of bow - just outside the 'cockney' zone) and I would say I have a London accent - I don't know what a cockney accent means.
Although cockneys are said to be people born in the East End within earshot of the bells of bow - I would say that most people from that area have a pretty much identical accent to mine. I don't know much cockney rhyming slang, in fact the only Londoner I know who has a reasonable command of rhyming slang was born in Ireland!
Please be aware that the use of the word Cockney for London(er) is misleading and inaccurate. If you are specifying a 'cockney' accent as opposed to a London accent - can you tell me the phonological differences?
I'm from London born and bred (about 5 miles from the bells of bow - just outside the 'cockney' zone) and I would say I have a London accent - I don't know what a cockney accent means.
Although cockneys are said to be people born in the East End within earshot of the bells of bow - I would say that most people from that area have a pretty much identical accent to mine. I don't know much cockney rhyming slang, in fact the only Londoner I know who has a reasonable command of rhyming slang was born in Ireland!
Please be aware that the use of the word Cockney for London(er) is misleading and inaccurate. If you are specifying a 'cockney' accent as opposed to a London accent - can you tell me the phonological differences?