Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The term Cockney has traditionally been used to describe a person from the East End, or born within earshot of Bow Bells Saif ...

Yiddish is a familiar presence in contemporary English speech. Many people use or at least know the meaning of words like chutzpah (audacity), schlep (drag) or nosh (snack). These words have been ...

If they were Scousers they’d be “made up”; from the Black Country they’d be “bostin”. But researchers from the University of Leeds are naturally “well chuffed” to receive a £460,000 grant to examine ...

The pearly king of Woolwich and his mouse turned heads at the Modern Cockney Festival The Modern Cockney Festival concluded recently with the dialect being officially recognised as a community ...

Alfie and Kat from the BBC soap, Eastenders. Yvonne and Alice discuss a type of English called Cockney that some people speak in East London. In this programme, they listen to some examples of Cockney ...

The Wall of Entertainment returns for part two of an hilarious comparison between urban slang and classic Cockney rhyming slang. Watch as we break down the differences between modern street language ...

At one cash machine in East London, you'll have to know a bit of cockney to get money for your pocket, or "moolah for ya sky rocket." The cockney dialect employs rhyming slang, which changes a common ...

The term Cockney has traditionally been used to describe a person from the East End, or born within earshot of Bow Bells Saif Osmani of the Bengali East End Heritage Society said Cockney has an ...

A group of east Londoners have called for Cockney to be recognised as an official language. Multi-cultural group Cockney Culture launched a petition that called on Tower Hamlets council to help ...