| 单词 | Cockney |
| 例句 | His accent’s Cockney, or Estuary, something like that. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The Cockney children in London were restless when the bombing stopped and disturbed a pattern to which they had grown accustomed. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Leon stretched out his arms and did the comic Cockney voice he reserved for her. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The boy recited with a thrilling clarity, and a jarring touch of what my generation would call Cockney, though I have no idea these days what the significance is of a glottal t. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Fiona had her own version of Lambeth Cockney, and with heartless exaggeration caught the ignorance of some patients, and their pleading, whining voices. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Several sailors did imitations of Cockney boys begging for a treat as Marston hammed it up as an ice cream vendor. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z It's more than the trendy bun, slender body, slightly Cockney accent, and clunky earrings. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He shut his eyes so as not to see the great whiskered wart on her chin, and tried to close his ears to the sound of her Cockney speech. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z By then, he was known as the Cockney prisoner of war in Hogan's Heroes, which ran on CBS from 1965 to '71. TV star Richard Dawson dies at 79 2012-06-03T15:45:41Z Asked decades later about her favorite “Gilligan’s Island” episodes, Ms. Wells mentioned “And Then There Were None,” which included a dream sequence in which she got to do a Cockney accent. Dawn Wells, Mary Ann on ‘Gilligan’s Island,’ Dies at 82 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z So the Rejects and their party fought: "Twenty Cockneys against … well, not all 300 Brummies were trying to attack us, but I'd say we were trying to fight off 50 to 100 people." Misunderstood or hateful? Oi!'s rise and fall 2010-03-18T21:45:00Z Culture shot to fame in the 1980s with hits including "Cockney Translation" and "Police Officer." Reggae artist Smiley Culture dies in Britain 2011-03-15T19:07:11Z I was given an Irish coach whose Cockney was much better than mine. Dick Van Dyke: 'Someone should have told me to work on my Cockney accent' 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z In the series, one of Isaac's alter egos is a British gift-shop worker named Steven Grant who speaks with a borderline Cockney accent — not meant, apparently, to be accurate. American actors with the best onscreen British accents, from Peter Dinklage to Renee Zellwegger 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw’s classic satire about a speech professor who tries to transform a Cockney flower girl into a proper lady. L.A. theater openings, March 15-22: 'Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella' and more 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z A versatile character actor capable of menace, quiet poignancy and Cockney charm, London-raised Hoskins appeared in some of the most acclaimed British films of the past few decades, including gangster classic "The Long Good Friday." British actor Bob Hoskins dies at 71 2014-04-30T13:07:10Z Taking a different approach, Serafinowicz created a series of viral videos in which he replaced Trump’s voice with various stock accents and voices he performed, including Sophisticated Trump, Cockney Trump and Sassy Trump. The ‘South Park’ Guys Break Down Their Viral Deepfake Video 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z With Cockney Translation I was a black man talking cockney. From pop star to chiropractor: musicians' post-musical careers 2010-09-23T21:29:00Z My Fair Lady Musical Theatre West opens its season with the Lerner & Loewe classic about a professor and a Cockney flower girl. L.A. theater openings, Oct. 18-25: 'Kansas City Choir Boy' and more 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z The drama was set in a Cockney market, and made at Elstree studios where, 20 years later, she would film EastEnders. Anna Wing, who played Lou Beale on EastEnders, dies aged 98 2013-07-11T12:56:52Z Celeste’s mother, a white Cockney British makeup artist, was working in Hollywood and “got caught up partying with her friends,” the singer said, when she met Celeste’s father, a Black Jamaican. Celeste, a Young Singer With an Old Soul, Makes Her Move 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z Perhaps it's unsurprising the gig has been swept under the carpet of musical history: after all, so has the genre the Cockney Rejects inadvertently inspired. Misunderstood or hateful? Oi!'s rise and fall 2010-03-18T21:45:00Z The fantasy has been retold a thousand times, most famously by George Bernard Shaw, whose version featured a phonetics professor who remakes a Cockney flower girl into an Edwardian lady. Is “Pretty Woman” on Broadway a Big Mistake? 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z He has experimented with Cockney Trump, to foreground the violence in the words, and Sophisticated Trump, to highlight his pathetically doomed pretensions. Peter Serafinowicz: 'If Liberace was alive, he'd tell Trump to tone it down' 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z Photograph: PA/PA Archive/Press Association Images The Cockney Rejects' 1980 performance at Birmingham's Cedar Club remains unnoted in the annals of rock history. Misunderstood or hateful? Oi!'s rise and fall 2010-03-18T21:45:00Z It’s an incredibly stylish and idiosyncratic account of the city from prehistory onward, told through section headings such as “Crime and Punishment” and “Cockney Visionaries” rather than a straightforward chronology. Read Your Way Through London 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z A Cockney flower girl gets an extreme makeover in "Pygmalion" at Pasadena Playhouse, Chance Theater heads down the rabbit hole with "Alice in Wonderland," and "Cinderella" is the belle of the ball at the Ahmanson. L.A. theater openings, March 15-22: 'Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella' and more 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Michael Caine is a Cockney crook leading a gang of thieves and drivers through an elegant plot to steal four million dollars in gold from Turin, Italy, and high-tail it to Switzerland. Stream These Ultra-Cool Heist Movies 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z Austin recalled, “He was telling a porky pie,” and laughed, using Cockney rhyming slang for a lie. George Michael Preferred Music to Fame. The Doc He Made Does, Too. 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z My Fair Lady Classic Lerner & Loewe musical about a professor who attempts a makeover on a Cockney flower girl. L.A. theater openings, Feb. 7-14: Bernadette Peters and more 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z This production has succeeded in providing well-rendered accents, from Cockney to upper-class. A well-spoken, well-dressed 'Pygmalion' 2011-08-25T18:19:05Z Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw's classic satire about a phonetics professor who attempts to school a Cockney flower girl. L.A. theater openings, Feb. 21-28: 'The Mystery of Love & Sex' and more 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Nailing the role of an impish Cockney, Albert Coia is particularly hilarious in the song “Me Little Yo-Yo,” about a marital crisis triggered by the loss of a toy. Review | If you want to steer clear of Scrooge, two stages provide different holiday fare 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z The son of a sometime dockworker, Mr. Bygraves liked to call himself “just an ordinary Cockney who made it.” Max Bygraves, Jovial British Entertainer, Is Dead at 89 2012-09-08T22:15:06Z “I said, ‘None that I could tell you,’” Mr. Caine recalled in his Cockney deadpan. Michael Caine on Elderly Roles and Why He Snubbed Cannes After 'Alfie' 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z So when she was creating the amoral Lovett in “Sweeney,” she thought back to her childhood in London, and the cheerful, can-do Cockney help in her home. Angela Lansbury, Broadway’s Beloved Everywoman 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z Seemingly stunned by the strangeness of the breaking news, they reflexively launched into joke torrents, superimposing 21’s face onto images of Buckingham Palace guards and translating his lyrics into Cockney slang. Perspective | 21 Savage is facing deportation. Curb your memes and locate your humanity. 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Her accent could travel from the Cockney of “Gaslight” to the Mississippi twang of “The Long, Hot Summer” and many destinations in between. Angela Lansbury’s Greatest Roles: A Streaming Guide 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z He sang the part of a Cockney man distraught at his Italian wife’s insistence on cooking such muck as tagliatelle. Frozen in Time: Sophia Loren, London, June 1960 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z Bob Hoskins never lost his Cockney accent, even as he became a global star who charmed and alarmed audiences in a vast range of roles. 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' actor Hoskins dies at 71 2014-05-01T11:01:43Z Bitterness is not incidental to the work of Oi! band Cockney Rejects. Readers recommend songs about shoes: The results 2010-04-15T20:45:00Z Much of his fame rested on his strong Cockney accent, which he regarded as unique because it contained elements of Manchester, where he worked for eight years, and wartime days as an evacuee in Hertfordshire. Broadcaster Derek Jameson dies 2012-09-12T19:10:07Z Punk's skinhead/football hooligan-friendly Cockney Rejects go over their tumultuous history. This week's new films 2012-11-10T00:05:50Z Me and My Girl A Cockney barrow boy invades a Downton Abbey-style world in this cheery 1930s musical, revised by Stephen Fry. The best theatre for Christmas 2010 2010-11-22T08:00:00Z Cockney rebels: a scene from The Rise and Fall of a White Collar Hooligan. The Rise and Fall of a White Collar Hooligan – review 2012-06-23T23:05:33Z In short, Brother make their fellow Slough ambassadors Hard-Fi look like the Cockney Rejects: the whole "new Blur v Oasis" thing was all over the minute one of them used the word "ethos". Maggoty Lamb goes behind the barricades in rock writers' class war 2011-02-23T14:41:09Z An exception was Enfield's obnoxious Cockney boasting about the size of his wad. How Margaret Thatcher left her mark on British culture 2013-04-13T17:00:00Z Moon also made a video appearance, delivering his Cockney vocal on “Bell Boy.” Music Review: The Who Plays ‘Quadrophenia’ at Barclays Center 2012-11-15T22:51:25Z Per an except written by Burgess, “In 1945, back from the army, I heard an 80-year-old Cockney in a London pub say that somebody was ‘as queer as a clockwork orange.’ Unpublished "Clockwork Orange" sequel discovered — here are the first details 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z She talked quickly and semi-decipherably between songs in a thick Cockney accent, snapping her long fingers through various anecdotes. Old soul Adele captivates with strong voice, natural charm 2011-08-13T20:50:33Z Culture - whose real name was David Emmanuel - gained fame with 1980s hits including "Cockney Translation" and "Police Officer." Reggae star stabbing death inquest opens in UK 2013-06-12T15:16:12Z Byron, among others, snobbishly dismissed Keats as a mere ‘Cockney poet’. Tom Wolfe vs. John Updike, Norman Mailer and John Irving — and other timeless literary feuds 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z Get off me bouff” was a common Cockney cry about protecting that bouffant do, and it didn’t take long for him to start working as a singer. Books Of the Times: Rod Stewart’s Autobiography 2012-11-14T22:44:40Z Mr. Iannucci’s decision to have the performers speak in an array of accented English — from Brooklyn to Cockney — carries some political resonance, suggesting that totalitarianism knows no borders. Review: The Slapstick Horror of ‘The Death of Stalin’ 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z I’ve taken it on the chin for 60 years about my atrocious Cockney accent in the first movie. Dick Van Dyke on ‘Mary Poppins Returns’ and Dancing at 93 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z To shed his Cockney accent, he took elocution lessons. | 'Vidal Sassoon: The Movie': ?60s Snipper Extraordinaire 2011-02-11T02:00:24Z While Synergy opted for a ghost theme, Apollo plumped for "The Cockney Tour". TV review: Edwardian Farm and The Apprentice 2010-12-09T08:00:00Z Or that Higgins strips her of her ragged clothes and Cockney accent so she can become a refined if useless lady. Review: Whose ‘Fair Lady’? This Time, Eliza’s in Charge 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z However astonishing, Wobble's musical travels avoid pretension, grounded by the Trilby-hatted Cockney geezer's mischievous, surreal humour. Jah Wobble & the Nippon?Dub?Ensemble 2010-08-06T20:46:00Z He was a kindred spirit: a nonconformist, a Cockney mystic. Bard reputation: pop stars pick their favourite poets 2010-10-07T15:52:00Z He made much of his working-class Cockney roots. Art Review: The Shock of Fashion, When It Turns Into Something Else 2011-05-04T23:32:08Z The Angelic Upstarts followed the Cockney Rejects onto Top of the Pops, while Splodgenessabounds made the Top 10 with the deathless Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps Please. Misunderstood or hateful? Oi!'s rise and fall 2010-03-18T21:45:00Z Rupert Everett will co-star as Professor Henry Higgins, who tries to transform the Cockney flower girl in a bid to pass her off as a society lady. Tointon poised for West End debut 2011-03-09T10:20:28Z He was a cultural phenomenon … the lyrics for Cockney Translation were used in schools. Smiley Culture remembered by Dennis Bovell and David Rodigan 2011-03-16T14:14:12Z Ms. Foster’s Gertrude is somewhat hampered by the textual trims, to the point that her brief performance as the second gravedigger, in which she sports a woolly Cockney accent, is almost as memorable. Theater Review: Michael Benz in ‘Hamlet’ at the Schimmel Center 2012-10-03T21:57:28Z Put aside all his acting achievements, and he's still the person who has made the most authentic working-class Cockney movie ever. Gary Oldman: from Sid to Smiley: the rollercoaster story of a true British great 2012-02-09T18:59:00Z From streetscapes to people in local pubs, Bailey's exhibition shows the ever-changing Cockney landscape. In pictures: David Bailey's East End 2012-07-06T06:56:27Z The ersatz Bermondsey 'characters' had as much plausibility as Kipling's Cockney rhymes. Booker club: Last Orders by Graham Swift 2012-07-24T11:28:36Z At its most patronizing, "Treme" reminds me of Adrien Brody's character from "Summer of Sam," a Brooklyn teen who spent a few months in England and returned with a punk hairstyle and a Cockney accent. How "Treme" untangles the lessons of trauma 2011-04-25T13:26:00Z Similarly, the dark-lit grins and unflappable footwork of the lamplighters turn their dangerous labor into comic play; “smile and smirk,” they sing, is Cockney rhyming slang for “work.” ‘Mary Poppins,’ and a Nanny’s Shameful Flirting With Blackface 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z Soulless, joyless and depressingly graceless, “Alien Girl” plays like an early Guy Ritchie knockoff without the jokes or Cockney accents. Russian Gangsters Run Amok 2010-12-17T05:43:01Z I remember taking Cockney Translation down to Jamaica and playing it on the radio and Jamaica went crazy for it. Smiley Culture remembered by Dennis Bovell and David Rodigan 2011-03-16T14:14:12Z Someone should have told me I needed to work on my Cockney accent. Dick Van Dyke: 'Someone should have told me to work on my Cockney accent' 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z Deploying a Cockney accent, his Elizabeth threatens and menaces Kate Middleton, newly engaged to Prince William, the minute the prince leaves the room. An Inscrutable Monarch, Endlessly Scrutinized Onstage and Onscreen 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Emmanuel, who was 48 when he died March 15, shot to fame in the 1980s with hits such as "Cockney Translation" and "Police Officer." Protesters urge inquiry into reggae singer's death 2011-04-16T20:31:05Z In the original, a male sculptor creates and falls in love with a beautiful statue; in George Bernard Shaw’s play “Pygmalion” and in the Lerner-Loewe musical “My Fair Lady,” she’s a Cockney flower girl. ‘Barbie’ Review: Out of the Box and On the Road 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z Owing to a childhood spent almost entirely with nannies, the Prince of Wales spoke in private with a Cockney inflection – and later, in exile, developed an American twang. The King's Speech: True blood or right royal dud? 2011-01-13T17:25:00Z Seattle Shakespeare Company stages Shaw's most popular play, about a Cockney flower seller and the professor who bets he can make her a well-spoken lady. 19 top entertainment picks for March 4-10 in Seattle 2012-03-01T00:03:04Z I spoke with a Cockney accent, which is obviously working class, and everybody in the theaters was very posh. Actor Michael Caine Reflects on His 50-Year Movie Career 2010-10-26T08:30:00Z But it was his dubious Cockney accent in Mary Poppins that for ever sealed him in the minds of British fans. Dick Van Dyke cancels NY appearance 2013-04-19T09:02:13Z The philosophical Alfred P. is at the center of the production’s liveliest numbers, featuring gamboling Cockneys. Review | Brittany Campbell as Eliza carries a strong, slightly racy ‘My Fair Lady’ 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z As he told it, Cockney Translation had resulted in him being courted by some "serious businessmen in the East End", who had given him money to make various investments. Smiley Culture obituary 2011-03-15T22:36:02Z Platts-Mills’s film is unpretentiously atmospheric: The thick Cockney accents require subtitles, and Audience, an East End prog band, supplies a credible score. ‘Bronco Bullfrog’: Hello Young Lovers 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z In what she now calls “a massive misstep,” McCartney sent out plastic guitar purses and clothes trashed with Cockney rhyming slang. What Drives Stella McCartney 2012-02-22T11:58:00Z A friend of mine who is English said that she saw Ben as an ordinary Cockney kid who had this fame land on him, whatever combination of accident and talent that was. Cannes: Dominic Cooper on playing a "human vibrator" 2010-05-23T18:01:00Z Cockney Translation had endeared me to a lot of serious businessmen in the East End of London, and because of the records, I'd met a lot of influential people who helped me get investment. From pop star to chiropractor: musicians' post-musical careers 2010-09-23T21:29:00Z It’s almost like the Cockney accent is such a fun, cool one, and I just imagine people are more fun when the doors are closed. How SNL turned prim Queen Elizabeth II into a punk brawler 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z On the bouncy ska number “There Goes a Tenner,” about a failed bank heist, she makes the ill-advised decision to sing in a Cockney accent. The Enduring, Incandescent Power of Kate Bush 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z I would describe the accent as just shy of Cockney east. Lin-Manuel Miranda Was Talking to Meryl Streep the Other Day 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Commons examples include mangled American accents and terrible Cockney. "That's a rubbish Essex accent" 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z The much-softened Cockney accent she applied to numbers from “My Fair Lady” was just enough to suggest the character Eliza Doolittle. Music Review: ?Best of Lerner and Loewe,? at Carnegie Hall 2010-04-20T22:14:00Z In a weary Cockney accent, she informs the caller that her employer is in Spain. The Sublime Chaos of “Noises Off” 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z Strident as Puck and affectionately caustic as Oberon, she put on an amusing Cockney accent for Bottom. Dudamel adds his dramatic touch to a night of Mendelssohn at Hollywood Bowl 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z The King's English and Cockney are no longer common dialects among young people in the South East of England, according to a new study. Cockney and King's English becoming less common, researchers find 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z I can do Australian, I can do New Zealand, I can do Scots, I can do Cockney, but I cannot do American. Fox Business host Stuart Varney gets ready to rumble at the Republican debate (without Trump) 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z They see themselves as custodians of a waning way of life, which they carry on by singing Cockney songs, sharing Cockney stories and, crucially, collecting money for good causes. London’s Other Royals, the ‘Pearlies,’ Keep Alive Cockney Customs 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z "Cockney would have changed if the speakers stayed in London, and it's changed on Essex soil; it's all just part of language change." Do you need to be from London to be a cockney? 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Yes, but as Michael pointed out, those Cockney accents can be hard to understand. Perspective | Reeling in the year: A look back at some 2022 characters 2022-12-25T05:00:00Z Around 26% of the participants spoke estuary English, which had similarities with Cockney but was closer to received pronunciation. Cockney and King's English becoming less common, researchers find 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z She played the chain-smoking Cockney matriarch Dot Cotton on the British soap opera “EastEnders” for 35 years. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2022 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z The idea for the finery grew from the tradition in Cockney culture of thumbing noses at London society’s disdainful view of the lower classes. London’s Other Royals, the ‘Pearlies,’ Keep Alive Cockney Customs 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z The Modern Cockney Festival concluded recently with the dialect being officially recognised as a community language by an east London council. Do you need to be from London to be a cockney? 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Henry, who speaks with a Cockney accent in the film, said the fight sequences with Pitt were "the most therapeutic thing that ever happened." Brad Pitt action movie 'Bullet Train' speeds into theaters 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z Participants with this accent pronounced words like "house" like "hahs" but the study said it was not as extreme as Cockney. Cockney and King's English becoming less common, researchers find 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z People speak differently, her son picking up so-called “Multicultural London English” rather than the “Cockney vowels and glottal stops” of her father’s generation. Review: For expats during COVID, what does home even mean? A new memoir sheds light 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z The original cast included Rex Harrison as Professor Henry Higgins, an irascible phonetician in Edwardian London who gives speech lessons to a Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle. Sally Ann Howes, who was Truly Scrumptious in ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,’ dies at 91 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z “Smutty Smiff here,” said the voice on the other end, in a thick Cockney accent. The 40-Year Mystery of Smutty Smiff and the Missing Rockabilly Bass 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z Baldwin, a Cockney clothing factory boss, became one of the most memorable characters in the show’s fictional town of Weatherfield. ‘Coronation Street’ actor Johnny Briggs dies at age 85 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z But we prefer the Cockney version: "Norman Flaming Rockwell". Grammys 2020: Seven things to watch out for 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z When Melania Trump headed to the UK in June, she did so in an outfit that, in a cod Cockney accent, said: “London, baby”. Pointless handbags and portentous brooches: the year in fashion 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z In reality, she is the poor daughter of a dustman who speaks with a thick Cockney accent. Americans are Fast to Judge Social Class 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Sheringham had the image of a flash Cockney off the field, yet on it he was a symbol of understated excellence. The Joy of Six: football and the outside of the boot | Rob Smyth 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z “Money,” said Mr. Foreman, a born raconteur who speaks in long paragraphs peppered with Cockney slang. Once He Was the ‘Godfather of British Crime.’ Now He’s Just a Grandfather. 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z Not every great breakup song deals with romance, as evidenced by Steve Harley’s fabulously bitter recounting of Cockney Rebel Mark 1’s split. The 20 greatest breakup songs ever – ranked! 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z The first was with a French-speaking household, and the second was with a white Cockney family. 'No, I’m a Londoner': Top Boy's Yann Demange on his tussle with identity in the US 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z He sings with a broad Cockney accent, he raps a nursery rhyme, he dances with hand-drawn animated animals. In 'Mary Poppins Returns,' Lin-Manuel Miranda arrives as a movie-musical star 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z The show is based on “Pygmalion” by George Bernard Shaw, about the Cockney girl Eliza Doolittle, who works to shed her accent with the help of professor Henry Higgins. Grammy nominations for musical theater: TV's 'Jesus Christ Superstar' is a surprising challenger to Broadway's 'Band's Visit' 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z Like Keats, who spoke Cockney but wrote the purest sounds in English, Flannery spoke a dialect beyond instant comprehension but on the page her prose was imaginative, tough, alive. Flannery O’Connor’s Revelatory Honesty 2001-01-22T05:00:00Z The other essential ingredient is the artist’s outrage, which remains strong, as he demonstrates with a cartoon of Donald Trump as a “Porky Pie” — Cockney rhyming slang for “lie.” Five museum shows you should see this summer 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z I remember trying to reason with some white Cockney kids calling me “Paki” at school once. 'No, I’m a Londoner': Top Boy's Yann Demange on his tussle with identity in the US 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z My Fair Lady A Victorian Era linguistics professor attempts to give a Cockney flower girl a high-society makeover in this classic musical. The week ahead in SoCal theater: 'The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui' and more 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Bristow, nicknamed the Crafty Cockney, died on 5 April after suffering a heart attack and collapsing at a Premier League event at Liverpool's Echo Arena. Darts legend Eric Bristow's funeral held 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z One of the sports first great players, the man known as the “Crafty Cockney” was world champion five times between 1980-1986 and won five masters titles during a stellar career. Darts: Five-times world champion Bristow dies aged 60 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Pygmalion A British professor gives a Cockney flower girl a high-society makeover in George Bernard Shaw's classic satire. The week ahead in L.A. theater, Feb. 11-18: '4Play: Sex in a Series,' Patti LuPone and more 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z Others were put off by the prospect of trying to understand Cockney rhyming slang and the complex geography of the city. Trump's London tweet mocked on social media 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Or her great-great-grandfather had been a Cockney flower seller and she was in “My Fair Lady.” Perspective | An actress in ‘The Pajama Game’ at Arena has a connection to the subject matter 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z Mrs. Lovett is an incredible comic creation, a dirty Cockney doll, always looking for the main chance. A Wondrous Production of “Sweeney Todd” 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z “From Cockney rhyming slang to codes swapped among highwaymen, they’re tribal badges of identity, bonding mechanisms designed to distinguish the initiated, and to keep strangers out.” Totes annoying: words that should be banned 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Brain is a hyperintelligent, short-tempered straight man voiced by a guy doing a stentorian Orson Welles impression; Pinky is daffy and sweet and speaks in an over-the-top Cockney accent. Letter of Recommendation: ‘Pinky and the Brain’ 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z And music journalist Will Ashon recounts the social history of Epping Forest — Britain's unofficial first national park and “a Cockney Paradise”. Natural history: Voices from the greenwood : Nature : Nature Research 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z Responding to Southern’s bafflement about the Cockney cast of “Loving,” Green said that he wanted to show the “conflict,” for Raunce, of being in Ireland—a neutral country—while England was at war. The Novelist of Human Unknowability 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Cockney rhyming slang, for example, is a casualty of sweeping gentrification. In with the in crowd: secret languages can confuse, exclude or empower 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z The gang also made one big and amateurish mistake: They bragged about what they had done — often in expletive-laced Cockney rhyming slang. Six Men Are Sentenced in Record Jewelry Theft in London 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z His accent wanders from American to Australian to Cockney – frequently in the same sentence – but he’s clearly enjoying himself. Gimme celluloid: a history of Mick Jagger on film 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z The 'Crafty Cockney', a five-time world darts champion in the 1980s, said pretty much what he wanted, when he wanted, the way he wanted. Brave Hamilton should be applauded 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z An unassuming man with cropped graying hair and a soft Cockney lilt, Constable Collins patrols the same streets in North London he grew up in. London Police ‘Super Recognizer’ Walks Beat With a Facebook of the Mind 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z I’ve also got a soft spot for the Cockney Rejects, and their version of the West Ham song I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles. Craig Finn's guide to the best ever sports music 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z In 1940, he played a Cockney evacuee in Cottage To Let, first on stage and then on film. Obituary: George Cole - BBC News 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z Based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, My Fair Lady tells the story of Cockney flower girl Doolittle who is transformed into an upper-class lady by linguistics professor Henry Higgins. Dame Julie Andrews to direct production of My Fair Lady - BBC News 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z Then the director said, “Nick, can you give me a Cockney accent? We’re thinking of Cockney for this character. And a little more seedy?” The Five Steps To Mastery 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z His young student, on the other hand, is a rough-around-the edges Cockney lad with an arrest record and an affinity for ballcaps and sneakers. ‘Kingsman: The Secret Service’: James Bond meets Jack Bauer 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z “He could have been speaking any language—Italian, German, anything,” says the decidedly Cockney actor. Eddie Marsan Studies Death in ‘Still Life’ Breaking stride, these Cockney pedestrians wore expressions of restrained bafflement or irritation. The badshah of Tower Hamlets 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z When discussing their health with a doctor, Cockney speakers are likely to use less ambiguous terms, especially if there’s a medical emergency. Knowing Cockney Rhyming Slang Can Actually Help Doctors Save Lives 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z By the time the project is finished, the bones of thousands of ancient Cockneys will have been shifted. A grave issue 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z "I was really, really disappointed." he said in his amenable Cockney twang. A look behind the masks of Star Wars 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z This mix of Jamaican patois, American hip-hop, Cockney classics and the coinages of youthful Londoners has added much to slang's vocabulary. 10 slang phrases that perfectly sum up their era 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z She writes: "He was the go-to actor for roles requiring a Cockney accent and an edge of menace." Adams arrested and Hoskins tributes - papers 2014-05-01T05:31:23Z She starred in a series of films as the recurring character of Squibs, a Cockney flower girl working in Piccadilly Circus, which were also directed by Pearson in the 1920s. Masterpiece of silent film recovered 2014-04-02T23:45:11Z Most of Max's characters' speech bubbles are written in 1914 Cockney - "Are you sure them gas tubs is full, Bernard?" calls one worker to another. The map that saved the London Underground 2014-01-10T01:10:43Z During his years at large, Mr. Biggs, aided by the British tabloid press, cultivated his image as a working-class Cockney hero. Ronnie Biggs, Great Train Robber, Dies at 84 2013-12-18T08:57:26Z The researchers found two particular features of pronunciation, typically associated with the Cockney dialect, were becoming increasingly apparent in the Glaswegian dialect among regular viewers of the BBC programme. EastEnders 'changing Scots accent' 2013-09-09T23:08:13Z Stracey, his seconds and 25 more intrepid Cockneys bobbing in a foaming sea of 30,000 macho Latinos, sucking in the rarefied air, 7,500 feet above sea level. Facing the boxer who is 'better than Messi' 2013-04-25T14:43:03Z "Come on, boys," he said in a bizarre faux Cockney accent. My illicit game of football with monks influenced by Escape to Victory 2013-01-25T14:01:11Z “So what's this book about, then?” he growls, in a gangsterish Cockney whisper, arms folded in front of him, left fist jammed under his chin. Wisdom from Psychopaths? 2013-01-04T13:15:05.423Z As the brightest pickpocket, a sharp Robbie Collier Sublett brings a jaunty attitude and a confident Cockney accent to the Artful Dodger. | New Jersey: A Review of ‘Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist,’ in Madison 2012-09-30T00:24:04Z In particular, this study was investigating why certain linguistic factors that are normally found within the Cockney dialect in London were gradually entering into Glaswegian. EastEnders 'changing Scots accent' 2013-09-09T23:08:13Z He's an irrepressible Cockney market trader bustling around in his battered, three-wheeled Robin Reliant but always just one dodgy deal away from striking it rich. Rule Britannia: Olympic closing ceremony explained 2012-08-12T20:06:13Z Ever since the first recorded modern fight took place in London in the 1770s, when Elizabeth Wilkinson, the "Cockney Championess", reigned supreme, the accepted view was that women's boxing was abhorrent. Women boxers to make Olympic history in city that once shunned them 2012-08-05T12:21:51Z Cockneys have been proud residents of London's East End for centuries - and they want to make sure the world knows it. London's Cockneys compete for Olympic attention 2012-07-20T07:16:09Z This bloke from the Land of Robin Hood famously spoke in an Irish accent, with a hint of Cockney, Australian and Scottish. The Fiver: Oligarchs, Bongo Barons and Lucre-Laden Halfwits 2012-07-11T14:39:37Z But what's in it for the locals, from the old-style Cockney working class to the immigrants from around the world who now make east London the most ethnically diverse part of this city? IHT Rendezvous: The Olympian Stakes for East London 2012-07-07T14:19:51Z There is as much difference between Sherlock Holmes’s vocabulary and his Cockney associate Mary Ann Monk’s as there is between Reverend Underhill’s upper middle class tongue and Ninepin the flash-palavering newsboy’s. Room for magic: A conversation with Lyndsay Faye 2012-06-28T13:45:00.213Z New-born Cockneys are becoming an endangered species because the area in which the Bow Bells can be heard has shrunk, acoustics researchers claim. City noise 'endangers Cockneys' 2012-06-25T03:51:22Z A certain underdog combativeness has always been part of the Cockney character. London's Cockneys compete for Olympic attention 2012-07-20T07:16:09Z Shakspeare uses the word Cockney in this latter sense in King Lear, Act II. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 111, December 13, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-04-08T02:00:23.437Z There was the faintest hint of Cockney impurity about the vowel sounds. Mortal Coils 2012-04-06T02:00:30.740Z Standing as this church does, in the centre of the city, those who are born within the sound of its bells are jocularly called Cockneys, a name equivalent to genuine citizens. Collins' Illustrated Guide to London and Neighbourhood 2012-04-06T02:00:29.250Z However now, the researchers suggest no true Cockneys may ever be born again - as the only hospital in the area of audibility has no maternity ward on site. City noise 'endangers Cockneys' 2012-06-25T03:51:22Z Cockney traditions flourished in the tight-knit communities of London's East End, but the area has been transformed since World War II, when thousands of homes were destroyed - and thousands of people died - in German bombing. London's Cockneys compete for Olympic attention 2012-07-20T07:16:09Z The French and Neapolitan festivals, called cocagne and cocagna, appear to have presented themselves in this country under the form of Cockneys' feasts and revels conducted by the King of Cockneys. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 111, December 13, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-04-08T02:00:23.437Z When he first mentioned to Chapman & Hall his scheme of a Cockney Club ranging over England, he was a popular comic artist of several years' standing, and Charles Dickens was a name unknown. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z This last statement agrees with the Cockney tradition, that St. Paul’s is twice as high as the Monument. Collins' Illustrated Guide to London and Neighbourhood 2012-04-06T02:00:29.250Z The meeting was held in London, the audience was a peculiarly Cockney audience, and Charles Kingsley is personally little known to the public of the metropolis. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z These flamboyantly dressed figures, their black costumes covered in thousands of pearl buttons, are among the most recognizable Cockney symbols - Rahman called them "London's other royal family." London's Cockneys compete for Olympic attention 2012-07-20T07:16:09Z Two Cockney boys were examining the mummies at the British Museum for the first time, and one of them was much puzzled by the labels denoting the age of the contents. Ever Heard This? Over Three Hundred Good Stories 2012-03-21T02:00:33.730Z Celtic ears finds the drawl of the Saxon Swell flat, And a Cockney may chaff at the patois of Pat. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, December 3, 1887 2012-03-09T03:00:20.130Z The major sent for a little Cockney sergeant. The A.E.F. With General Pershing and the American Forces 2012-03-09T03:00:18.240Z Being banished from home when you’re young is frankly horrid, especially since my working class Cockney background set me apart from the other middle class children at school. How To Kick Adversity In The Butt 2012-02-15T21:56:12Z Many pass their honorary Cockney titles on from parent to child. London's Cockneys compete for Olympic attention 2012-07-20T07:16:09Z He has brought a dash of Cockney pride to a world dominated by foreigners with egos as big as their bank accounts. In most countries the Harry Redknapp case wouldn't have reached a jury 2012-02-09T20:30:01Z He could, and did, rhyme “poet” with “know it,” but he never drove such a Cockney team as “deny” and “to-dy” to water at the Pierian springs. The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z According to a trade circular issued by a Cockney company, Florence and Lucca, whence the finer description of oils have been heretofore imported, are threatened with a vigorous competition by the Iles of Greece. Mr. Punch's Cockney Humour 2012-01-17T03:00:15.233Z "He wanted to sneak in," the little Cockney replied, half apologetically, half resentfully. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z Some believe the distinctive Cockney brand of English is also in danger of dying out. London's Cockneys compete for Olympic attention 2012-07-20T07:16:09Z Moore spoke slightingly of Leigh Hunt's Cockney poetry, and Leigh Hunt in reply ridiculed Moore's diminutive figure. Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 2011-12-25T03:00:11.297Z For a moment Miss Jennings's cheerful little Cockney voice grew quite shrill. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z A Cockney Con.—When may a man really be supposed to be hungry? Mr. Punch's Cockney Humour 2012-01-17T03:00:15.233Z You’ve got a bit of the bur-r-r of Northumbria in your brogue, but I do believe people like it, and Harry isn’t half the Cockney he used to be. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z In today's East End, the children of Somali and Bangladeshi immigrants speak with Cockney accents, but their slang is as likely to come from American jargon and Jamaican patois as Cockney argot. London's Cockneys compete for Olympic attention 2012-07-20T07:16:09Z She is a Cockney and displays surprise when she is told those things are bananas. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z A Cockney's Question on the Navy.—Does a Port Admiral mean an Admiral who is laid down for a long series of years, and not decanted for service till he is very old? Mr. Punch on the Warpath Humours of the Army, The Navy and The Reserve Forces 2011-11-28T03:00:24.727Z Cockneys are not the only people who drop or exasperate the "h's." Mr. Punch's Cockney Humour 2012-01-17T03:00:15.233Z Next day Archie swept down upon the Cockney in fine form, meaning to impress him. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z But don't count the Cockneys out just yet. London's Cockneys compete for Olympic attention 2012-07-20T07:16:09Z Had it been the purest Cockney it could not have seemed more welcome. A Duel 2011-11-20T03:00:13.840Z She laughed, the dissonant laughter of the female Cockney of a certain class. Between the Dark and the Daylight 2011-11-11T03:00:37.893Z I say, what sort of a 'ouse will do for a fowl-'ouse? 2nd Cockney. Mr. Punch's Cockney Humour 2012-01-17T03:00:15.233Z The Cockney was not much impressed; I fear he was not very impressionable. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z "I'm very proud to be a Cockney," said Groves, who has married into a family that boasts four generations of Pearly Kings and Queens. London's Cockneys compete for Olympic attention 2012-07-20T07:16:09Z She is a stout, genteel person, very splendidly gowned, with a Cockney accent. Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honor 2011-11-11T03:00:30.420Z He answered in an easy, 165 deep voice, the accent of which was neither Cockney nor yet quite of the mode of the men Louie knew. The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z To a Cockney Inquirer who consults her concerning the inevitable Annual "Outing" and its probable issues. Mr. Punch's Cockney Humour 2012-01-17T03:00:15.233Z Five minutes afterwards the young Cockney on the “Eider Duck’s” back was tearing along the field at railway speed. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z There's ——, an impudent knave!—has just sent me his ——: you will find it pleasant to flagellate him, or ——, a Cockney coxcomb! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z Cockney school, a school of writers belonging to London, who flourished in the first half of the nineteenth century. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z Do you remember that day on the racecourse when Cockney Bill and his pals tried the system of going for the banker at faro and jumping his satchel? Luck at the Diamond Fields 2011-10-06T02:00:43.067Z There are various kinds of larks to be observed by Cockney naturalists, which are more or less, and rather less than more, indigenous to London. Mr. Punch's Cockney Humour 2012-01-17T03:00:15.233Z “Ay, Johnnie, and all that time Bob there helped the farmer—dug for him, trenched and fenced, and all for my sake, and to keep the life in my Cockney skin.” From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z Eleven o'clock.—Saw a Cockney "gent" on a walking tour, the first of the sort that I have seen in these parts, and he looked frightened at the solitariness of the scene. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z He was grateful to his rear-rank man, a Cockney, and a consistent grumbler, for a running commentary of frivolous complaint. Denis Dent A Novel 2011-10-04T02:00:16.973Z Some cities have already abandoned their conductors’ distinctive accents, like the fondly remembered London underground conductor with a Cockney accent who told passengers to “Mind those cheeky doors.” City Room: That Sounds Like Clouseau; This Must Be an A Train 2011-09-26T15:16:46Z Our Cockney correspondent says that the birds are very wild, and that the heath being extremely slippery, the attempt to run after them is apt to be attended with numerous falls, especially in patent-leather boots. Mr. Punch's Cockney Humour 2012-01-17T03:00:15.233Z "This Cockney suggests that it's a cow—a stray cow." The Strand Magazine, Volume XXVII, Issue 160, April, 1904 2011-09-21T02:00:33.023Z To do him justice, Hanbury's complacence was not entirely due to spirituous longings, but to a homesick instinct aroused by the Cockney accent of the vulgar stranger. The Duke Decides 2011-09-14T02:00:47.307Z He knew only the name of the pawnbroker's street, but here Cockney sharpness came in again, and they were pounding on the right shutters by half past three. The Crime Doctor 2011-09-09T02:01:05.570Z He adored her beauty, he found no fault with her Cockney twang, and he gave her in double measure the love which had lain buried for many years with his young wife. A Life For a Love A Novel 2011-08-18T02:00:24.323Z Cockney Epitaph for a Cook.—"Peace to his hashes." Mr. Punch's Cockney Humour 2012-01-17T03:00:15.233Z Neither the coster of to-day, nor the old-time Cockney of the days of Dickens, would be guilty of uttering the uncouth vowel sounds I have heard habitually used by all classes in Australia. The Awful Australian 2011-08-11T02:00:14.850Z A staunch and loyal friend, he yet strongly believed, to use the old Cockney phrase, in “keeping himself to himself.” George Alfred Henty The Story of an Active Life 2011-07-31T02:00:08.463Z The little Cockney ran his engine till the first flunkey returned and said things through the noise. The Crime Doctor 2011-09-09T02:01:05.570Z A Cockney Chiel who found him thus, And showed some conjugal alarm, When Burns implored him not to fuss, Enquiring calmly, "Where's the harm?" More Misrepresentative Men 2011-07-20T02:00:14.390Z Poison in the Bowl.—Hot weather.—Advice by our own Cockney. Mr. Punch's Cockney Humour 2012-01-17T03:00:15.233Z Cho-Cho-San’s lingo was most amusing with its mixture of Cockney and Japanese. Molly Brown's College Friends 2011-07-16T02:00:15.700Z The Cockney was assured that, if he placed the Sea-shell to his ear, he would hear the murmur of Ocean. A Bayard From Bengal Being some account of the Magnificent and Spanking Career of Chunder Bindabun Bhosh,... 2011-07-13T02:00:17.950Z A Cockney maid produced such snores, Folks left the City to avoid them; And all becos, She said, it was Her adenoids that 'ad annoyed them! Verse and Worse 2011-07-12T02:00:34.607Z Above all, he is a Cockney, and nothing that belongs to Cockneydom is unknown to him. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z The Cockney is as a rule a conscious humorist; you laugh with him very often, whereas you nearly always laugh at the rustic humorist. Mr. Punch's Cockney Humour 2012-01-17T03:00:15.233Z Already, on Bank Holidays, when the Cockney comes to Gravesend, literally in his thousands, riotous parties adventure thus far, and dance in the dusty highway to sounds of concertina and penny whistle. The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike 2011-07-04T02:00:17.130Z The Cockney asked his chum if he had ever visited Whitechapel. The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z Third, the article on the Cockney School of Poetry, numbered as the first of the series, headed with a quotation from Cornelius Webb, and signed with the initial ‘Z.’ Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z But for these we must travel far from the land of the Cockneys. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z The Real London Pride.—We know an inveterate Cockney who declares that London milk beats the country milk, and beats it "by many chalks." Mr. Punch's Cockney Humour 2012-01-17T03:00:15.233Z Ye who have a spark in Your veins of Cockney spirit, smile or mourn, According as you take things well or ill; Bold Britons, we are now on Shooter’s Hill! The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike 2011-07-04T02:00:17.130Z Honorah 'Awkins was a Cockney, who, with a fortune acquired in the soap trade, was on the hunt for a titled husband. Famous Prima Donnas 2011-05-26T02:00:18.267Z ‘You mistake that altogether,’ said B., ‘the writer does not like the Cockney School, so he went on joking Mr K. about it.’ Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Poor Vichy must be quite ruined—veritably it was a Cockney hole. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II 2011-05-22T02:00:17.943Z Cockney humour smacks, of course, of the town and makes up in smartness and shrewdness what it lacks in mellowness. Mr. Punch's Cockney Humour 2012-01-17T03:00:15.233Z The actor who performed this part was evidently quite at home in the representation of the smallest Cockney characters. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 2011-04-29T02:00:09.217Z Neither did Miss Hall go very heavily into the Cockney; she suggested rather than reproduced, and then fell back on her powers as a fun-maker to win out with her audiences. Famous Prima Donnas 2011-05-26T02:00:18.267Z But Leigh Hunt’s praise of one of his own supposed disciples of the Cockney School would carry little weight outside the circle of special sympathizers. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z It is the film's signal moment of triumph, similar to Henry Higgins's breakthrough with the Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady. The Family-Friendly Version of The King's Speech: No F-Words Allowed 2011-04-04T15:50:00Z Conundrum for Cockneys.—Which has the greater amount of animal heat, the beaver or the otter? Mr. Punch's Cockney Humour 2012-01-17T03:00:15.233Z It was first applied to Hunt by the Tory journals in 1817 and, in the phrase “Cockney School,” was gradually extended until it included most of his associates. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z Though she may act Cockneys and French grisettes to the end of the chapter, Miss Hall will always be what she was born,—a jolly American girl. Famous Prima Donnas 2011-05-26T02:00:18.267Z Next Saturday night the supper is to be given,—Beefsteaks and punch—the food of the “Cockney School.” Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z These Philippics are to come out in numbers—called “the Cockney School of Poetry.” Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z Pro Bono.—There is one first-rate joint that comes to table which is the Cockney's prime aversion—the h-bone. Mr. Punch's Cockney Humour 2012-01-17T03:00:15.233Z A pale-faced, sallow set, like the misses of some Cockney boarding-school, taking a constitutional walk, to get rid of their habits of eating lime out of the wall.... Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z She was thinking, thinking, all the time, of David and Dibbin and of the queer collapse of Gwendoline which made that little Cockney woman her companion. The Late Tenant 2011-03-28T02:00:25.153Z Not just those scuffling Cockney urchins; or the convivial throngs outside the towpath pubs; or the middle classes in their gracious bow-windowed houses and lovely, sloping, riverbank-leaning lawns. Boat Race still takes British sport's venerable cream cracker 2011-03-23T00:06:01Z Police Officer reached number 12, while his other singles included Cockney Translation and Schooltime Chronicle. Reggae star dies in UK police raid 2011-03-15T17:27:10Z Cockney humour smacks, of course, of the town and makes up in smartness and shrewdness what it lacks in mellowness. Mr. Punch's Cockney Humour 2012-01-17T03:00:15.233Z But it was reserved to the spirit of atheism of an age, to talk of a Cockney writing a tragedy. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z Most divide the British into "The Queen's" English, a sort of general "Cockney" sounding dialect, and one broad label of "Scottish." Cole to LA 2011-03-02T14:36:10Z Among the crowd of young Cockneys in jockeyish-looking caps, with travelling pouches strapped to their sides, there was a rather tall gentleman in a clerical suit, with his throat covered with the usual white bandages. My Unknown Chum 2011-03-01T03:00:38.307Z A little Cockney in our regiment went up to the German officer, and, not supposing that he would be understood, said fiercely, 'For two pins I'd knock your blooming head off.' The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) From the First Battle of Ypres to the End of the Year 1914 2011-02-23T03:00:28.797Z The Cockney is as a rule a conscious humorist; you laugh with him very often, whereas you nearly always laugh at the rustic humorist. Mr. Punch's Cockney Humour 2012-01-17T03:00:15.233Z To offset such statements Blackwood’s dubbed the new school the “Cockney School” and made Hunt its chief doctor and professor. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z The two contemporary conceptions of him as a fatuous Cockney Bunthorne or as “a tadpole of the lakes” were equally erroneous. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z To speak in ordinary terms on such occasions would be as absurd as the Cockney's application of the epithets "clever" and "neat" to Niagara. My Unknown Chum 2011-03-01T03:00:38.307Z Mr. Macbean often says to me, 'Come on, Mamma, and give us a turn at the Cockney.' The Setons 2011-02-10T03:00:48.400Z He portrays some of the Cockney's superficial characteristics; he despises him too much to be able to get at the heart of him and reveal his character. Mr. Punch's Cockney Humour 2012-01-17T03:00:15.233Z A facetious bit of prose On Sonnet Writing and a Sonnet on Myself in Blackwood’s of April, 1819, parodied excellently the Cockney conceit and mannerisms. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z He is a traveller and a cosmopolitan, while Dickens is irredeemably Cockney. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z "That's not it at all!" broke he in, with an insolent laugh; "but you won't allow that you 're a Cockney." Paul Gosslett's Confessions in Love, Law, and The Civil Service 2011-02-04T03:00:18.850Z Do you know," she asked him, "what the Scots girl said to the Cockney tourist when he asked her if all Scots girls went barefoot? The Setons 2011-02-10T03:00:48.400Z He portrays some of the Cockney's superficial characteristics; he despises him too much to be able to get at the heart of him and reveal his character. Mr. Punch's Cockney Humour 2012-01-17T03:00:15.233Z Although Byron was frequently at war with Blackwood’s and the Quarterly, and although he was closely associated with Shelley and Hunt, he was never stigmatized as a member of the Cockney School. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z "We think she must have a past, because her hair is so very golden, and she speaks with a slight Cockney accent." Abington Abbey A Novel 2011-01-30T03:00:14.557Z I know that there are critics who, pronouncing upon this part of my career, will opine that the Cockney was right, and that I had really lost my head in my prosperity. Paul Gosslett's Confessions in Love, Law, and The Civil Service 2011-02-04T03:00:18.850Z Mr. Christie called you a 'gentlemanly fellow,' and Mrs. Christie said, speaking for herself, she had no objection to the Cockney accent, she rather liked it! The Setons 2011-02-10T03:00:48.400Z She spoke in the harshest possible Cockney, but quite pleasantly. Consequences 2011-01-14T03:00:53.047Z “Swaling” had been the most famous one in the poem because of the ridicule heaped upon it by the enemies of the Cockney School. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z "Charming place, ma'am," said he, bowing to the widow; "noble prospect—delightful to us Cockneys, who seldom see any thing but Pall-mall." A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy 2011-01-13T03:01:13.027Z "I declare that I believe a Cockney, though he has n't a word of French, is more at home on the Continent than in Ireland." Paul Gosslett's Confessions in Love, Law, and The Civil Service 2011-02-04T03:00:18.850Z The English soldier, and the Cockney especially, is a wag and a jester. The Irish on the Somme Being a Second Series of 'The Irish at the Front' 2011-01-12T03:00:32.843Z They let him come nearer and when he was a hundred yards away Delahunty said, "By gobs, it's Cockney!" Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences 2011-01-05T03:00:58.503Z Blackwood’s, on the other hand, had too much, for whenever one of the so-called Cockneys was mentioned, its contributors wallowed in the mire of coarse buffoonery and cruel satire, disgusting scandal and vulgar parody. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z The new British invasion will end in disaster when the Federal Communications Commission sends them packing, accusing them of lacing their on-air banter with vulgar Cockney rhyming slang. Media Cache: What?s Ahead for Media and Digital Businesses in 2011 2011-01-03T02:26:07Z Earlier, hundreds of locals had demonstrated peacefully outside the ground's main reception chanting "Cockney Mafia out" and, among other ruder things, "Hughton is a Geordie" and "Get out of our club". Newcastle 3-1 Liverpool 2010-12-11T19:40:00Z He boasts that, with six months of training, he could pass off Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl he calls a “squashed cabbage leaf,” as a duchess. | Long Island: Eliza and Henry, and an Undercurrent 2010-09-25T00:18:00Z But, as Cantona showed with this pass, he had more than one way to skin a Cockney. The Joy of Six: Breath-taking one-twos 2010-07-23T10:51:00Z On the other hand, Byron did not render to Hunt the homage he was accustomed to receive from the Cockney circle and had nothing but contempt for all his works except the Story of Rimini. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z In fact, so strongly marked is its partiality to the haunts of man in the neighbourhood of our great metropolis that it has received the name of the Cockney. Butterflies and Moths (British) Moreover, as a Cockney, he had not much opinion of or consideration for the feelings of a farmer and a country butcher. A Poached Peerage Courage the Cockney undoubtedly possesses, because he is always among those who are said to rush in where others fear to tread. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 He may have a less Cockney voice, and a less flamboyant style of good looks than Miss Vi Vassity and her theatrical friends. Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune In April of the following year he was christened the “Aristotle” of the Cockneys. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z "Thou shall not be a snob;" such is the first principle at present of Cockney ethics. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 His French was considerably purer than hers, she spoke it with the Provençal accent that sounds exactly like a Cockney twang. Beggars on Horseback Homer, Dante, Milton, Goethe, Wordsworth, have done such and such things, and therefore a Cockney is to do them also. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 "For Miss Smith," he said in the pretty, up-and-down Welsh accent that is such a rest after Cockney. Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune The Cockneys were said to hate everything that was good and true and honorable, all moral ties and Christian principles, and to be steeped in desperate licentiousness. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z Thus, at least, the Cockney moralist professes no more than he really believes. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 They are fond of telling, in Scotland, how friend Donald one day showed a Cockney really prodigious things in the Isle of Arran. Friend Mac Donald The natural history of the Cockney has been frequently illustrated, and never so successfully as in time past in the pages of Maga. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 "Oh, it's her!" cried Miss Million's shrill Cockney voice in a sudden cessation of the parrot-like shrieks of talk and laughter as I ran round the table. Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune It is important in the history to be discussed in a later chapter of the literary feud which resulted in the creation of the so-called Cockney School. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z Stump up, Cockneys, high and low We must all enlist, you know, For the sum required is nothing to alarm ye. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, April 26 1890 The Cockney began to rave with all his might. Friend Mac Donald A Cockney is by locality very much what a tailor is by trade. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 A pert and Cockney voice squeaked into my ear that Miss Vi Vassity wasn't at home. Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune The word “Cockney” says Bulwer-Lytton, signifies the “archetype of the Londoner east of Temple Bar, and is as grotesquely identified with the Bells of Bow as Quasimodo with those of Notre Dame.” Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z There's a smart Cockney Tar with his glass to his eye, Sing hey, sing ho, and a Brummagem salt! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93. August 6, 1887. To tell the truth, the wit of, I will not say, an Englishman, but a Cockney, is not within the reach of the Scot. Friend Mac Donald It is wonderful, however, to see with what success a Cockney can sometimes disguise himself. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 "Very sorry, Miss Lovelace, but I can't spare your niece to go with you just now," she announced, in her "that-settles-it" sounding Cockney accent. Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune Hunt, Shelley, Hazlitt and Keats were the chief targets in the Cockney School. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z "The man who reminds another of the small necessity there is to press him to take something—be it meat or drink—must be a Cockney." Tony Butler The Cockney must have his puns and small jokes. Friend Mac Donald No lessons in elocution, no change of climate, can eradicate the deep-seated mischief of its mispronunciation in a Cockney whose years of pupilarity have been passed on the spot of his birth. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 I like Million's nice smile and her Cockney chatter about the Soldiers' Orphanage where she was brought up and trained for domestic service, and about her places before she came here. Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune In true Cockney fashion he sent the latter a sonnet and some roses and thus began the acquaintance. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z "I am neither a Cockney, nor accustomed to listen to impertinence." Tony Butler Donaldii showed prodigious Things to a Cockney in the Highlands.—There is no Man so dumb as he who will not be heard. Friend Mac Donald The Cockney arrives at a similar state of easy and impudent non-chalance by a different process. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 The little Cockney brain could not take in her view. A Bed of Roses ‘If I but knew who was my slanderer,’ was at one time the ludicrous skraigh of the convicted Cockney. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z He had been born in London, and spoke the most Cockney dialect imaginable, and had picked up—probably from London critics—a dislike for the poetry of Thomas Moore. The Trembling of the Veil Soon the whole detachment was marching toward the main force, and the three true to the promise of their Cockney friends saw London 'buses, still covered with their hideous signs lumbering along as transports. The Guns of Europe He had no doubt that the Cockney Jew Levison was acting in collusion with the more cultured scoundrel, and he wondered how the latter would take his revolt. A Traitor's Wooing In her little Cockney brain the question was insolubly revolving: 'Can you kick a man when he's down. A Bed of Roses Keats’s sonnet containing the line “He of the rose, the violet, the spring” became the official Cockney poem—by an “amiable but infatuated bardling.” Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z She fell for my Cockney lad's 'ginger 'air.' The Riddle of the Spinning Wheel Then Sister Brian, a most accommodating nurse, whose Cockney accent was an unmistakable mark of her early upbringing, went out to locate the missing organ. The Black Watch A Record in Action "Bindle is the greatest Cockney that has come into being through the medium of literature since Dickens wrote Pickwick Papers" MR. Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle A little valley shut in among hills, that a Cockney would have called mountains; a clear little trout-stream, and some shady alleys to stroll among, being all I wanted. Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume I (of II) We shall not, however, enlarge at present upon this subject, as we mean to dedicate an entire paper to the classical attainments and attempts of the Cockney poets.” Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z Dollops stopped in his tracks and sucked in his breath hard, and the freckled brown of his Cockney countenance took on a queer drabbish shade. The Riddle of the Spinning Wheel The Common's vastly handy, there's no doubt, to chaps in town, And crowds of Cockneys to the butts can quickly hurry down; But what are allTown's Cockneys to one solitary Peer? Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, August 20, 1887. Jenny lost her fear of bullocks, dreaded insects no longer, and might have been a Cornish maid all her life, save for her clear-cut Cockney, to which not a single western burr adhered. Carnival The 'American Books,' too, is very interesting, though you perhaps hit poor Cooper rather hard, and some of the Cockneys will be apt to quote it when 'Brother Jonathan' comes into their paws.... The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 The jests about London and the Cockneys did not affect me in the least, as far as my faith was concerned. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z You'll be the death of me yet, lad," he remarked merrily, "with your Cockney and 'Scotch' rolled into one. The Riddle of the Spinning Wheel It was Mrs Francis Manning who spoke, the faint Cockney twang of her voice sounding discordantly in contrast to the cultured tones of her companions. What a Man Wills Jenny, with her splendid Cockney irreverence, thought little of Mr. O'Meagh, less of his red coat, but a very great deal of the balmy February drives past the vivid green meadows of Liffey. Carnival A big Matabele warrior was half in the room; another, quick as thought, drove his assegai clean through the Cockney prospector. John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising Neither Gifford nor Southey seemed to have been blessed with the saving grace of humor in dealing with the Cockney School. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z I thought it was you the minute my peepers rested upon your Cockney countenance, you little bundle of indefatigability! The Riddle of the Spinning Wheel It must be very good, but not—not too fashionable,” said Mary, with a blush, and the kindly Cockney ran a twinkling glance over her attire, and took in the position in a trice. Lady Cassandra What a nine days’ wonder he was, especially if he were a Cockney and talked in the language of Cockaigne—if he had heard the Iron Duke, or seen royalty from afar. Christopher Crayon's Recollections The Life and Times of the late James Ewing Ritchie as told by himself From time immemorial the Cockneys have hastened thither to enjoy themselves. The Night Side of London Neither were the members of the Cockney School the only ones who provoked such antagonism from the same magazine. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z Yet Cockney connoisseurs still think it a fine picture. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 He almost makes us forget that the heroine of Carnival is a vulgar little Cockney, by tempting us to believe that it might have been otherwise with her. A Novelist on Novels "How did you guess I was a Cockney?" asked he, laughingly. The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly "One more act and then over goes the show, as the Cockneys say." A Marriage at Sea Blackwood’s of December, 1822, in a review of The Liberal, advised Byron to “cut the Cockney”—“by far the most unaccountable of God’s works.” Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z But Churchill, we grieve to say it, was a regular—a thorough Cockney. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 "Eh! that's the way they come it," whispers a Cockney to his friend. Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands "Hit's the bloomin' haltitude in your 'ead, Ma'am," explained a Cockney later, and I expect he was right, for we have made an ascent of over one thousand feet since leaving Edmonton. Seeds of Pine "For that Moses I proposes," cried every Cockney visitor. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) The declaration of war between the Cockneys and the Tory press was made with a review of the Story of Rimini in the Quarterly of January, 1816. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z The instant a Cockney opens his mouth, or puts pen to paper about Scotland, he stands confessed. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 Hence arises that insufferable air of self-satisfaction, that contented self-sufficiency, so observable in your genuine Cockney. Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands You are inclined to wonder that, even undressed, he still shouts with a Cockney accent. A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time Not Far Out.—A cynical old Cockney of our acquaintance says he considers the moustache movement to be only a new way the young fellows have got into of giving themselves 'airs. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) He greatly regretted his lack of a university education, but he consoled himself by quoting with true Cockney spirit Goldsmith’s saying: “London is the first of Universities.” Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z “Right you are, sir,” answered in excellent Cockney the undersized person addressed. Cleek of Scotland Yard Detective Stories Our host, the afore-mentioned Bill Anderson, was a Cockney: very hospitable, very much given to the bottle, and withal a great talker and liar. Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia She was what you Cockneys call 'sarcy,' Loyd; but the sick girl was positively enchanting; so pretty, so gentle, and so confiding withal. A Rent In A Cloud The so-called “Cockney” accent or pronunciation has varied in type. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" There must be lots of traffic there in the shape of sheep, grouse, and Cockney tourists, not to mention salmon and other et-ceteras. Tales from Blackwood, Volume 1 What! some small, puny, piteous windpipes are heard cheeping against thee from the Cockneys—like ragged chickens agape in the pip. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) He talks like a Cockney, acts like a bounder, and looks 'em both. Side-stepping with Shorty Truly, a Cockney sportsman who allows his dogs to win their own meat like that! Eyes Like the Sea The name of the “Cockney School of Poetry” was applied in 1817 to the literary circle of which Leigh Hunt was the principal representative, though Keats also was aimed at. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" He has the major's physical circumference, apoplectic turn and swell of manner, with the addition of Cockney vulgarity and cowardice. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 5 November 1848 Go, thou gentle Cockney! and angle in the New River;—but, bold Englishman, come with us and try a salmon-cast in the old Tay. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) And say, you know how pig headed one of them hen brained Cockneys can be? Side-stepping with Shorty And the presence of one Cockney titterer will cause a whole party to walk in clouds of darkness. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) The other man he knew to be Bingo, the only English sailor aboard—a shrewd and rat-faced little Cockney. Doubloons—and the Girl His sombre eyes were fixed upon the inanimate Cockney as though to this modern he would recall the miracle of Lazarus. Trusia A Princess of Krovitch The Cockneys do not like us Scotchmen—because of our high cheek-bones. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) Cockney Hicks, glancing away from the culprit, was looking at the trembling leaches of top'gal'nsails, sign of head winds. The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea She had bought three while they were crawling up the hill behind a break-load of jeering Cockneys. Cynthia's Chauffeur When he spoke,—a rare occurrence already hinted,—it was with a liberal misplacement of "h's" that should have proclaimed him an Englishman of purest Cockney type. The Boy Slaves Elated at the opportunity, the Cockney leaped into the landau beside him. Trusia A Princess of Krovitch The back of the shepherd—even in presence of that "great man"—will be as straught as—do not tremble, Cockney—this Crutch. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) Cockneys that kill Thin horses of a Sunday,—men with clams, Hoarse as young bisons roaring for their dams, From hill to hill. Home Life of Great Authors The cry was soon taken up by the Blackwood’s people in a series on the Cockney School of Prose. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature But at the same time she was speaking with instinctive care, so as to avoid Cockney phrases, and pronunciations, and tones. Coquette Like the phantasmagoria of dreams, he saw the Cockney, cut, slashed, and pierced, fall heavily from his horse. Trusia A Princess of Krovitch If that be not national to the teeth, Homer was no Ionian, Tyrtæus not sprung from Sparta, and Christopher North a Cockney. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) Why, certainly," replied her brother, smiling, "they look a brace of arrant Cockneys! Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. Ow," snarled Sir Isaac, with a glance at his mother that was almost vicious and a lapse into Cockney intonations and phrases that witnessed how her presence recalled his youth, "It'll go all right, mother. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman His Cockney accent, too, was wiped out as if by magic. The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts The Cockney had had some difficulty in disengaging his blade from the falling man, permitting his adversaries to push their ponies so close to his sides that he could work only with a shortened blade. Trusia A Princess of Krovitch I think you are truly a little too Cockney with me.—Ever yours, Robert Louis Stevenson. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) Yet I am certain that the boy who walked in Richmond Park with my father in the 'sixties spoke in his dialect, and not in that of Cockney nursemaids. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography Kemble, the general's orderly, a giant with a dozen or so to his account, was full of pity for the poor little Cockney. General Bramble One of Lockhart's signatures in Blackwood—a signature which, however, like others, was not, I believe, peculiar to him—was "Zeta," and this Zeta assailed the Cockney school in a sufficiently scorpion-like manner. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Once he had asked her why she had been so relieved at the answers concerning the medal the Cockney wore. Trusia A Princess of Krovitch One can imagine him laughing and describing a Cockney's terrors in the Highlands, when the whole hunt goes galloping down the crags, as is their North-country fashion. A Book of Sibyls Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen I passed on indoors and upstairs, thinking dizzily about Cockney dialect--I had the worst kind of dyspeptic headache--and feeling rather glad my wife was away. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography “You need not look long,” said I, glancing at a party of unmistakable Britons, who stood talking broad Cockney on the Boulevard. Tales from Blackwood, Volume 7 We soon learned to our dismay that this man was the notorious Cockney Spider, keeper of a runaway sailor’s boarding house. Where Strongest Tide Winds Blew "A good attendant," the other explained, pointing to the Cockney. Trusia A Princess of Krovitch Haven't I lost my boy, and wasn't it these Cockney cads who turned him adrift in London? The Camera Fiend When at length she drew breath, and allowed me to escape, I thought her Cockney dialect the basest and vilest ever evolved among the tongues of mankind. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography Many of these poems are familiar upon the tongue, or laid up silent-sweet in the memory of hundreds of world-weary Cockneys, who never set eyes on a Dorset vale, and probably never will. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 Many in that traffic were captured, but Cockney always escaped. Where Strongest Tide Winds Blew The Cockney's fists were clenched in a manner which promised that action would immediately follow declaration. Trusia A Princess of Krovitch "The Cockneys shout more, print more, and they squeal a lot, but the Widgers are in the majority!" Changing Winds A Novel The sons of Paris are a breed apart, just as our Cockneys are. Another Sheaf The peculiar pronunciation of vowels is what characterizes a true Cockney’s speech, but many others drop h’s—the people of Shropshire for instance. John and Betty's History Visit I held the position for two weeks, when one night Cockney came home intoxicated and told me that he had shipped Mitchell that night on a French bark. Where Strongest Tide Winds Blew Approaching the Cockney he laid a trembling finger on the star. Trusia A Princess of Krovitch The Oxford voice, in his opinion, was educated Cockney, uglier, if possible, than the uneducated brand. Changing Winds A Novel "Ho no! ho no!" replied Cockney, with unusual energy. The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists. Betty looked puzzled for a moment, and then said, “Wasn’t it supposed that only people who had been born within the sound of the bells of old Bow Church could be real Cockneys?” John and Betty's History Visit I visited Valparaiso and again met Cockney Spider. Where Strongest Tide Winds Blew Minutely, closely, she was studying the face of the Cockney; first red, then pale, her own countenance betrayed some inward apprehension. Trusia A Princess of Krovitch He hated the English accent ... "finicky bleatin'," he called it ... and declared, though he really knew better, that all Englishmen spoke with a Cockney intonation. Changing Winds A Novel It is needless to say that instead of raising Cain generally, as Cockney had been doing, he betook him to zealously writing notes on American customs during the remainder of the delay. The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists. "There you go again," continued the speaker petulantly a few moments later; "that's just how the Cockneys row." Soldiers of the Queen He couldn't do otherwise than laugh at the puny Cockney bookseller, pouring out endless volumes of sentimental twaddle, and hold him up to scorn as a moll-coddle and a milksop. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges The Cockney laughed in the free masonry of their mutual reminiscences. Trusia A Princess of Krovitch His pale face with its prominent eyes and rich, chestnut forelock bore an expression of indomitable Cockney confidence in the ultimate decency of things. Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war The little book, Wee Macgregor, written in what may be called the Scotch Cockney dialect, was a brave and amusing attempt to phonograph the talk of a Glasgow boy of the lower middle class. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland There must be lots of traffic there in the shape of sheep, grouse, and Cockney tourists, not to mention salmon and other et ceteras. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 Captain Irving gave readings in the Cockney dialect, which immensely amused the Yorkshiremen. Adventures and Recollections The Krovitzer soldiers stood dumbfounded at the sight of the star which hung upon the Cockney's breast. Trusia A Princess of Krovitch One man is exhausted and gives up half-way, and a cheerful Cockney voice comes down from above telling him to "put his beck into it!" Round the Wonderful World He was a pious little man, bent and thin, with a marked Cockney accent. Duncan Polite The Watchman of Glenoro There!" said Bob, slapping down the prospectus on the table, with the jauntiness of a Cockney vouchsafing a pint of Hermitage to his guests—"What do you think of that? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 Your late Numbers have given some curious instances of Cockney and other rhymes. Notes and Queries, Number 194, July 16, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Without deigning a reply to the old fellow, Sobieska spoke next in fairly good English to the Cockney. Trusia A Princess of Krovitch He read very slowly, in a voice that had in it both an adolescent croak and an engaging Cockney tang. The Combined Maze There can be no mortar without water, but the words do not rhyme except to Cockney ears, though the blame lies at the door of the mouth. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Mrs. Gerhardt's Cockney spirit could support this for herself, but she could not bear it for her children. Tatterdemalion The corruption would be easy; indeed, Cockney boating parties very likely get the right pronunciation, by accident, to-day. Highways and Byways in Surrey "How the hell should I know," replied the irritated Cockney, who swiftly resented this prying into his affairs. Trusia A Princess of Krovitch "Thanks to a Cockney babe in bandoliers, who was born not only with eyes and ears, like other infants, but with the capacity for using 'em." The Dop Doctor I wish he wasn’t such an awful East-end Cockney in his ways, for he’s a splendid fellow inside. Fix Bay'nets The Regiment in the Hills For all she was a Cockney, hers was a simple soul, associating Peace with Good-will. Tatterdemalion Northern rains and northern ivy have done their work, and "the ruins" remain—capitals, columns, and pedestals shouting a thousand Cockney scribbles, tumbled headlong under laurel and yew. Highways and Byways in Surrey When out of earshot of the hostelry, the Cockney, who had been a silent observer of the controversy, gave a prodigious sigh of relief. Trusia A Princess of Krovitch Once the swing-doors of the saloon opened to admit a short, spare, hollow-chested, dapper young Englishman, whose insignificant Cockney countenance was splashed with orange-coloured freckles of immense size. The Dop Doctor We were always bad friends, sir; he was so full of his Cockney monkey-tricks, and he hated me, but we couldn’t spare him. Fix Bay'nets The Regiment in the Hills All these things have I seen, Bogle, yea, and cheered them to the echo, in company with some thousand Cockneys, all agape at the glitter of tinselled pasteboard, and the glories of the Catharine-wheel. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Through him the two men, the sentimental Cockney fishmonger and the wastrel Cambridge graduate, had become friends. The Rough Road He glanced at the Cockney to see if he, too, had the same impression. Trusia A Princess of Krovitch The wide, thin-lipped Cockney mouth grinned a little consciously as W. Keyse jerked his thumb towards the still vibrating doors of the saloon. The Dop Doctor Though the stout Cockney, harbormaster, known as "Pinkie" because of his rosy complexion, was pallid with fear, the other European residents of Sandakan seemed utterly indifferent to the danger to which they were exposed. Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China Hungerford Bridge and Trafalgar Square, as I have already hinted, have kept the Cockneys in roars of laughter for years, and are dragged forward with unrelenting perseverance, but still undiminished effect, in each successive extravaganza. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 They talked vociferously in a later development of the Cockney dialect, manifestly very proud of themselves. Tales of Space and Time His eyes sought the Cockney's for a responsive gleam of gratitude. Trusia A Princess of Krovitch What was he saying, in the Cockney that cut like a knife through the thick gutturals of the Taal? The Dop Doctor She spoke with a very slight Cockney accent. Bird of Paradise Hasten we, then, to the glorious tournament of the Cockneys. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 And after a time they vanished, and he heard their voices, like a party of Cockney beanfeasters, away in the beechwoods. Tales of Space and Time Fumbling nervously at his shirt with one hand, with the other the wide-eyed Cockney was pointing at the star. Trusia A Princess of Krovitch She sang it quite simply and naturally, in an untutored but sweet and plaintive voice, and with the Cockney accent that spoke of home to nearly all that heard. The Dop Doctor She took in the situation at a glance and drew Mrs. Pickering a little aside, where Lady Gertrude could not listen to her piercing Cockney accent. Bird of Paradise The fact is, that a new Cockney school has arisen, ten times more twaddling and impotent than the ancient academy of that name. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Women of Andalusia It is meet and just that the traveller who desires a closer acquaintance with the country wherein he sojourns than is obtained by the Cockney tripper, should fall in love. The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia While there he picked up a poor devil of a Cockney and made more of a man of him than the fellow had ever dreamed of becoming. Trusia A Princess of Krovitch Now both curved backbones assumed the perpendicular, and their wide Cockney mouths were wreathed in joyful smiles. The Dop Doctor This rough, humble Cockney woman displayed the same spirit that was being shown by the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in France. Through St. Dunstan's to Light A little Cockney lad with a dirty bandage round his head, who had tossed in pain all day on the chancel steps, turned to the window to greet the daily miracle of the sunset. Captain Jim "Don't say no this time, sir," said the Cockney private, "or there'll be a rare shermozzle darn 'ere if some of the blighters come on top of us in the dark." With Haig on the Somme The Cockney's shoulder touched his by way of reply. Trusia A Princess of Krovitch A man wearing corporal's stripes pressed forward, shoved the Cockney soldier aside, and planted himself straight in front of Max with his hands on his hips. Two Daring Young Patriots or, Outwitting the Huns Ah—what matter That 'tis only London's outskirts, that I'm a poor Cockney cove, When this Wondrous Spring is on us? Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, May 6, 1893 Thus it was that presently might have been seen the astounding spectacle of a grizzled Australian squatter and a little Cockney serving-maid holding each other's hands in a back kitchen. Captain Jim Consternation at what might have happened, and a huge joy that it had not happened, struggled for mastery, and between the two the game little Cockney broke down and sobbed like a child. With Haig on the Somme "Excuse me," he said, with the pert assurance of the born Cockney, "but we aren't allowed to give information about customers." The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley One would get away from the beaten ways of Cockney tourists, and one would escape the dreary monotony of a table d'h�te. Vixen, Volume III. Not as natural history, but he knew bird, beast, insect, and tree, with a friendly hearty intimacy, such as Cockney writers ascribe to peasants, but which they never have. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster She went out and called to Eva, reflecting with relief that the girl's hard Cockney sense was not likely to fail her. Captain Jim "If you mean the singing bloke, sir—last I seed of 'im he was doin' a bunk for his own battalion," replied the Cockney private. With Haig on the Somme Don’t worry any more,” he said in excellent English, but with a French accent curiously tinged with Cockney. The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol A huge van-load of Cockney tourists, singing a boisterous chorus of the last music-hall song, passed Vixen at a turn of the road, and made a blot on the serene beauty of the scene. Vixen, Volume III. And, indeed, his Cockney pronunciation and ungainly vulgar tricks had been so summarily p. 520repressed by his aunt, that his fear of both the ladies rendered him particularly unengaging and unchildlike. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster He loves it with a passionate dignity which will not let him swagger like the Cockney or twitter like the Parisian. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 A shell burst thirty feet way, but the little Cockney came doggedly on, and they waited for him, even retracing their steps to meet him. With Haig on the Somme Cockneys are bad enough, but they are sincere and honest in their idolatry of the Great Babylon. The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, November 1875 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad. "The road leads down to the inn at Le Tac, where Cockney excursionists go to eat lobsters, and play skittles," said Vixen, laughing at her lover. Vixen, Volume III. And the showing him that terrible little Cockney, Hoeing, as the old woman calls him. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster This may be Cockney taste, yet it is better reading than Stanley's account of Edinburgh or the valley of Glencoe. Studies in Literature and History The other was his platoon commander, Captain Bob Dashwood, who chanced to be coming along the communication at the moment, and the Cockney private's eyes lit up as he saw him. With Haig on the Somme They were a jumbled lot, riff-raff of all the seas, Cape Verders, Islanders, a Cockney or two, a Frenchman, two or three Norsemen, and a backbone of New England stock. All the Brothers Were Valiant Lord Houghton says in error that the book did not so much as seem to signal the advent of a new Cockney poet! Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti Then came a Cockney humorist, who, in times of peace, was the owner of a fried fish and chip barrow in that home of low comedians—the East End. Mud and Khaki Sketches from Flanders and France Where the Cockney might die from heat and thirst, the Australasian can thrive like a Zulu or aborigine. The Kangaroo Marines That it has not flourished in Great Britain, save among a small and discredited Cockney minority, is due to the inherent manliness and vigour of the national character. The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly This Cockney, his little brother, and their sister were the thorn in the flesh of the escort. A Dominie in Doubt We used to go to a coffee-stall near the dock entrance and get what is described by Cockneys as "two doorsteps and a cup of thick" for about 2d. A Tramp's Notebook "Nobby" was a weedy little Cockney who became my "batman," or servant. Mud and Khaki Sketches from Flanders and France In all cases such as this, the Cockney twang and occasional curtailment is assumed to overcome the brogue, but in vain. Facts for the Kind-Hearted of England! As to the Wretchedness of the Irish Peasantry, and the Means for their Regeneration The Cockney knew what the Lord of Session knew not—that the British public is gentility crazy—and he knew, moreover, that gentility and respectability are synonymous. The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' Right now, he was a Cockney cab-driver, and he would play the part to the hilt. The Penal Cluster The daffodils should make good cover, but the runners will stand no chance against the Cockney sportsman. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 22, 1914 Alas! its sweet solitude is now disturbed by the cheap Cockney and Yankee tourist globe-trotter who come there in the American excursion steamers. The Call Of The South 1908 I remember a Cockney boy of fifteen telling me how at Southend he had gone for fun to see wounded Germans brought ashore. The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship When he spoke—a rare occurrence already hinted—it was with a liberal misplacement of “h’s” that should have proclaimed him an Englishman of purest Cockney type. The Boy Slaves "Seems to be headed in the right direction," Arthmore said, suddenly dropping the Cockney accent. The Penal Cluster Plunging in metaphor, Not a bit better for— Pardon the Cockney rhyme!— Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce Once a Cockney manufacturer was taking part in a school examination and asked a boy pompously—"W'at's the capital of 'Olland?" Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk Many of the stalwart fellows recognised the ex-officer of Black Police, and bade him a pleasant "good evening, boss," and presently he was hailed by Sam Young, Cockney Smith, and others of Fraser's party. Tom Gerrard So numerous are the sorts, that a purchaser is as much puzzled in his choice as an untravelled Cockney with a Parisian bill of fare. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 461 Volume 18, New Series, October 30, 1852 The Cockney swore, but rose from his seat. Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories |
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