A heritage group is seeking to widen the definition of 'Cockney', moving past trite stereotypes and making for a more modern and inclusive image of London's East End. Traditionally used to refer to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The term Cockney has traditionally been used to describe a person from the East End, or born within earshot of Bow Bells Saif ...

If they were Scousers they’d be “made up”; from the Black Country they’d be “bostin”. But researchers from the University of Leeds are naturally “well chuffed” to receive a £460,000 grant to examine ...

Alfie and Kat from the BBC soap, Eastenders. Yvonne and Alice discuss a type of English called Cockney that some people speak in East London. In this programme, they listen to some examples of Cockney ...

LONDON — Punch in your Finn if you want to get your hands on some sausages and mash. Over the next three months a cluster of East London ATMs will be offering customers the chance to withdraw cash ...

At one cash machine in East London, you'll have to know a bit of cockney to get money for your pocket, or "moolah for ya sky rocket." The cockney dialect employs rhyming slang, which changes a common ...

Saif Osmani of the Bengali East End Heritage Society said Cockney has an extremely rich heritage of up to 600 years of history, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service. He told a full ...

A group of east Londoners have called for Cockney to be recognised as an official language. Multi-cultural group Cockney Culture launched a petition that called on Tower Hamlets council to help ...