What is a cockney

What makes a person a Cockney?

To most outsiders, a Cockney is anyone from London, though contemporary natives of London, especially from its East End, use the word with pride. In its geographical and cultural senses, Cockney is best defined as a person born within hearing distance of the BOW BELLS

 

Cockney - Wikipedia

 

Oh my! That is far more than I could possibly remember!

 

I am a good teacher. lol
That is as true as I am riding this donkey. lol

 

Yep, uh huh!

 

LOL XXXX

 

A COCKNEY ,IS A PERSON ,WITH A COCK GROWING OUT OF HIS KNEE

 

Trust you.

 

Supposedly, a cockney is anyone born within earshot of the bells of St Mary-le-Bow church in the City. These days it’s more of a general term for working-class Londoners (especially East Enders). But according to linguist Dr. Susan Fox, ‘cockney’ started as an insult.

‘One of the earliest uses is in Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales”,’ she tells us. ‘He uses the word “cokenay” to mean “a child tenderly brought up, an effeminate fellow”.’ The word may have come from a term for a weird-looking egg, and it was first used by country folk to tar city-dwellers in general as soppy weaklings.

I never knew that.

 

That does not surprise me at all.

 

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