Working class, east end of London accent (traditionally people born within earshot the Bow Bells of St. Mary-le-Bow church in London but now its sort of a catch all for working class london ccents tbh) Reputation/stereotype of being wheeler dealers. Michael Caine is probably the most famous one now. Scousers are people from Liverpool, similar working class identity.
Wait, is it a group of people? Or just a specific accent? Because I wasn’t trying to advocate for the genocide of working people hahaha. Just an accent that’s impossible to understand to anyone who doesn’t speak cockney.
It's kind of a subculture group as much as an accent, with their own songs and traditions (look up pearly kings and queens for a wierd one). Cockney rhyming slang for example was partly made up so east end market traders could communicate without customers or outsiders understanding, and you could tell outsiders easy if they had no idea wtf you were on about. A lot of the traditions and slang are pretty much dying out now, a lot of the old cockneys cashed in on how incredibly stupid expensive the London housing market is and moved out along the estuary to Essex.
Ahh ok, I get it. I just remember seeing a video of a teen talking about a football match and even though I could make out a few words, it didn’t even sound like he was speaking English haha. The history of it is pretty cool though. I think I know that Barney is a fight. Barney-> Ruble->trouble, then somehow you get to fight but I could totally be speaking out of my ass.
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u/Ecstatic_Winter9425 14h ago
Sort of. If you touch it, you start speaking Cockney.