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2 kilometres that's only 2000 meters and on a clear day the bell can be heard at Stratford.
And Cockneys at not distinguished by their tong, but by their place of birth. There are different dialects of Cockney tong within the community. Rhyming slang is only used when one Cockney wishes to talk to another without being understood by a non Cockney listener. And if you want to hear a Cockney talk the lingo, then you can phone me. You must come from Kent.
A cockney is someone born within the sound of the bells of St Mary le Bow church. This limits them to people born within a radius of about 2km from the church - a very small area.
There is NO definition about "race", which only became an issue after the second world war; so anybody born in the area will be a cockney regardless of their colour or ethnicity. Making rants about "londonstan" and lack of natives only obfuscates the situation and does not give an accurate answer.
As this area is in England it is assumed that most people born there will be English by birth.
Cockneys used to be distinguished by their local form speech "cockney rhyming slang" but that has become so diluted and corrupted (by artificial creation of television programmes and rubbish films like Mary Poppins) in the last 50 years that it is now more of am embarassing joke than a real dialect. You won't hear it naturally spoken - only put on to impress or fool tourists.
Certainly not all as there is a specific definition of Cockney. Traditionally a Cockney is someone born "within the sound of Bow Bells", referring to the church of St Mary le Bow, Cheapside. This is a rather small area and there are very few people actually living in it, so Cockney now tends to get applied to anyone with that kind of accent from east London.
To be a Cockney you have to have been born within the sound of the bells of the church of Saint Mary le Bow, Cheapside, in the City of London.
These days anyone with a London accent is likely to be called a Cockney.
No, not all Londoners.
To be a true Cockney, you must be born within hearing distance of the church bells of St. Mary Le Bow, Cheapside, in the City of London of London.
Nope, the cockney accent/language is wearing off a little nowadays i think due to the diversity in london, however if your looking for some real cockney check out some of the areas in east/north london, :)
No. There are millions of Londoners that are not Cockneys. There are few English/British in London today. It's called Londonistan for a reason.
The title 'Cockney' is applicable to people born within the sound of the bells of Bow Church, Cheapside, in the city of London.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_q...
Londoners who were not born within the sound of Bow Bells do not claim to be Cockney's and instead, just like anyone else who happens to be here in London, just think of themselves as 'Londoners'.
The title 'Londoner' is applicable to anyone and everyone who sets foot here in London - and that goes for tourists and visitors alike - no matter where from.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZy_gE66...
London UK
No. Only those born in a certain area of East London
No, that term applied only to a specific small area of London. The ethography of that area has changed more than once over the last century, and at one time many of the inhabitants were East European Jews, now they are more South Asian.
