Cockney
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A Cockney is a certain type of Londoner. The term mainly refers to speakers of the distinctive Cockney dialect of English used in and around London, particularly by the working and lower-middle classes; especially people from the East End, or, traditionally, people born within earshot of Bow Bells.
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Use in films
- Many of Ken Loach's early films were set in London. Loach has a reputation for using genuine dialect speakers in films:
- 3 Clear Sundays
- Up the Junction
- Cathy Come Home
- Poor Cow (the title being a Cockney expression for "poor woman")
- Alfie
- Sparrows Can't Sing. The film had to be subtitled when released in the United States owing to difficulties with audience comprehension.
- Bronco Bullfrog. The film's tagline was "Cockney youth - with English subtitles".
- The Long Good Friday. The DVD of this film has an extra feature that explains the rhyming slang used.
- My Fair Lady
- In A Clockwork Orange, the fictional language used of Nadsat had some influence from Cockney.
- Mary Poppins (and featuring Dick Van Dyke's infamous approximation of a Cockney accent)
- Mary Poppins Returns (with Lin-Manuel Miranda, who plays Jack, stating "If they [the audience] didn't like Dick's accent, they'll be furious with mine")
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) — Mrs. Nellie Lovett and Tobias Ragg have Cockney accents.
- Passport to Pimlico. A newspaper headline in the film refers to the Pimlico residents as "crushed Cockneys".
- Cockneys vs Zombies
- My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Spring Breakdown. Ragamuffin, portrayed by Jason Michas, has a Cockney accent.
- Pinocchio (1940), The Coachman, voiced by Charles Judels, has a Cockney accent.
- The Gentlemen
- Harry Potter book series. Villains tend to have Cockney accents.
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See also
- Cockney Wanker
- EastEnders
- Estuary English
- Languages of the United Kingdom
- List of British regional nicknames
- Madras Bashai and Bambaiya Hindi, similar working class dialects of Tamil and Hindi respectively used in the cities of Chennai and Mumbai, India
- London slang
- Mockney
- Possessive me
- Cockney rhyming slang
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