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He was not ridiculous, though his grammar was defective and his pronunciation had the cockney twang and his aspirates were wanting: nothing is ridiculous that is in earnest.
For himself, though in his time something of a rambler, he is not ashamed in this respect to confess to a legitimate Cockney taste; and for his part he does not know where life can flow on more pleasantly than in sight of Kensington Gardens, viewing the silver Thames winding by the bowers of Rosebank, or inhaling from its terraces the refined air of graceful Richmond.
The point he makes in the following passage is undeniably proving true: All that the conventional spelling has done is to conceal the one change that a phonetic spelling might have checked; namely, the changes in pronunciation, including the waves of debasement that produced the half-rural cockney of Sam Weller and the modern metropolitan cockney of Drinkwater in "Captain Brassbound's Conversion.
He flung up his hands and tramped down the stone stairs, singing out of tune with a Cockney accent: O, won't we have a merry time, Drinking whisky, beer and wine!
Father Conmee walked and, walking, smiled for he thought on Father Bernard Vaughan's droll eyes and cockney voice.
Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels is the laborious title of an even more laborious Cockney action movie that some people think is the cat's pajamas crossbred with the bee's knees.
"), Jamie Shea ("Each week the Nato press spokesman with a Cockney accent has been forced to explain away an array of Nato mistakes--in English and French.
It's the ex-paramour, not the husband, who hires a detective agency to dog the mysteriously wayward Sarah, and--in one of those ironies that feels delightfully postmodern--it's Maurice himself who ends up being trailed by a Cockney gumshoe, Parkis (an amusingly earnest Ian Hart), when Sarah reinitiates contact.
The contrast also justifies the neat allusion to London whose Cockney vowels responsibly transmute the grapes of wrath and enrich our reflections.
Another name for the sixpence was sprat, which probably came from a cross between this word and sprazianna, the Cockney rhyming slang for a sixpence ( tanner ).
In Cockney English, for example, where initial h is regularly dropped there is a tendency to compensate by supplying initial h where it does not belong.
This outdated prison slang is used almost nostalgically, in the same way that some people still employ Cockney rhyming slag (which was once itself an anti-language).
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