References

[1]Cockney: a native of London. An ancient nickname implying effeminacy, used by the oldest English writers, and derived from the imaginary fool's paradise, or lubberland, Cockaygne.

[2]This cokneys and tytyllynges..[delicati pueri] may abide no sorrow when they come to age..In this great cytees as London, York, Perusy and such..the children be so nycely and wantonly brought up..that commonly they can little good (Robert Whittington, Vulgaria (1520).)

[5] (http://www.london-walks.co.uk/29/cockney-bow-bells-st-mary.shtml)

[7]" ...I shall explain myself more particularly; only laying down this as a general and certain observation for the women to consider, viz. that most children's constitutions are spoiled, or at least harmed, by cockering and tenderness."

[8]http://www.stmarylebow.co.uk/#/bow-bells/4535373284

[9]J. Swinnerton, The London Companion (Robson, 2004), p. 21.

[14] October entry (http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/blog0710a.htm4th)

[50]http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/get-the-hump

[51]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPen9nbuFQc

[54](http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/sesll/EngLang/phonetics/index.html)

[55]Is TV a contributory factor in accent change in adolescents? (http://www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/ViewAwardPage. aspx?AwardId=1892) – ESRC Society Today

[58] A Handbook of Varieties of English, Volume 1, p. 185.

Bibliography

•Cruttenden, A. (2001). Gimson's Pronunciation of English (6th ed.). London: Arnold.

•Ellis, Alexander J. (1890). English dialects: Their Sounds and Homes.

•Hughes, Arthur; Trudgill, Peter (1979). English Accents and Dialects: An Introduction to Social and Regional Varieties of British English. Baltimore: University Park Press.

•Matthews, William (1938). Cockney, Past and Present: a Short History of the Dialect of London. Detroit: Gale Research Company.

•Rogaliński, Paweł (2011). British Accents: Cockney, RP, Estuary English. Łódź. ISBN 978-83-272-3282-3.

•Sivertsen, Eva (1960). Cockney Phonology. Oslo: University of Oslo.

•Wells, J.C. (1982a). Accents of English 1: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

•Wells, J.C. (1982b). Accents of English 2: The British Isles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

•Wright, Peter (1981). Cockney Dialect and Slang. London: B.T. Batsford Ltd.

External links

•Grose's 1811 dictionary (http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Grose-VulgarTongue/c/cockney.html)

•Whoohoo Cockney Rhyming Slang translator (http://www.whoohoo.co.uk/cockney-translator.asp)

•Money slang expressions (http://www.smallbusinesspro.co.uk/small-business-finance/british-money.html)

•Sounds Familiar? (http://www.bl.uk/soundsfamiliar) – Listen to examples of London and other regional accents and dialects of the UK on the British Library's 'Sounds Familiar' website