Cockney speakers are now more likely to live in Essex than in the traditional heartlands of inner London's East End, according to research. Historically the dialect was used by people from the central ...

LONDON — The East End’s Eliza Doolittles have long since moved away--not to rural Hertford, Hereford and Hampshire, mind you, but to suburban Essex and Kent, where their cockney rhyming slang is ...

As English dialects go, cockney is one of the most influential. Long considered the preserve of working-class communities in east London, it has shaped the way people speak across the country, from ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - A London arts center is compiling an archive of poetry and phrases in the city's historic Cockney dialect as a study shows the accent is being driven out of the capital by the ...

The 650-year-old cockney accent is dying off in the British capital, as traditional speakers emigrate to the Home Counties of Essex and Hertfordshire, The Evening Standard newspaper reports. It is ...

Andy Jordan's Tech Diary heads to London where some cash machines offer an option to transact in the totally unintelligible cockney dialect. It's on the bloody Wall Field of Wheat Journal!