Cockney Perhaps the most famous
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O (pronounced ohw as in snow) but often varied pronunciation between different words, which you’ll find tricky if you’re learning English for the first time: words like cough and dough are spelled almost the same but spoken differently. Get the latest on travel, languages and culture in the GO newsletter Sign me up You’ll find R.P. in cities like Oxford, Cambridge, Eastbourne and Brighton. 9. Essex This county’s dialect is so distinct, you can immediately tell if someone comes from Essex. They’ll pronounce
words like no as NA-hw and drop the th sound from Belgium Telemarketing Data words like think, so they’d say fink instead. It’s also become common to drop words like to and the in statements like “Let’s go (to the) shops”. It’s an accent that’s become much more well known thanks to reality TV shows starring people from Essex, much to everyone else’s chagrin. Head to London to take a day trip to Essex and discover the accent. 10. British accent other than R.P. is Cockney. It developed as the dialect of
the poorer working classes in the East End of London, and it’s still regarded as a marker of ‘true’ East London heritage. Like the Essex accent, Cockney swaps the th sound for f, drops the h in front of words like head, and elongates vowels like A and E. However, perhaps it’s most famous for Cockney Rhyming Slang, where people replace words with another word that’s an abbreviation of an unrelated phrase that rhymes with it: like dog (as in ‘dog and bone’) to mean telephone. Bizarre, I know.We may
words like no as NA-hw and drop the th sound from Belgium Telemarketing Data words like think, so they’d say fink instead. It’s also become common to drop words like to and the in statements like “Let’s go (to the) shops”. It’s an accent that’s become much more well known thanks to reality TV shows starring people from Essex, much to everyone else’s chagrin. Head to London to take a day trip to Essex and discover the accent. 10. British accent other than R.P. is Cockney. It developed as the dialect of
the poorer working classes in the East End of London, and it’s still regarded as a marker of ‘true’ East London heritage. Like the Essex accent, Cockney swaps the th sound for f, drops the h in front of words like head, and elongates vowels like A and E. However, perhaps it’s most famous for Cockney Rhyming Slang, where people replace words with another word that’s an abbreviation of an unrelated phrase that rhymes with it: like dog (as in ‘dog and bone’) to mean telephone. Bizarre, I know.We may
