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Cockney dialect cockney accent image-2, British dialect, Pronunciation…
Cockney dialect
Vocabulary
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Lexical features
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Awite Mate ? = Hello, how are you?
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Pronunciation
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t : glottal stop
wa'er (water), , , reali'y
ma'er (matter), be'er (better)
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h dropped
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'ello (hello), ungry (hungry)
'ing=> in
workin', cleanin', readin', cookin', talkin'
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Grammar
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Question tags
Ain't (am not, isn't, aren't)
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British dialect
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'Native' Eastenders
Michael Caine :
Amy Winehouse
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Nowardays, Cockney dialect has become widely spoken even in high professional jobs such as finance, law firms, etc
It' is a dynamic dialect which is currently omnipresent on TV and radio and is unlikely to disappear in the near future.