An exhibition tracing Cockney English from before the time of Charles Dickens through to the music of Blur and N-Dubz opens tomorrow. Lyrics from songs written in recent years show how "ain't" is ...

The Wall of Entertainment breaks down the differences between urban slang and Cockney rhyming slang in this entertaining ...

The pearly king of Woolwich and his mouse turned heads at the Modern Cockney Festival The Modern Cockney Festival concluded recently with the dialect being officially recognised as a community ...

As the Modern Cockney Festival enters its third year, people in south east England with a Cockney connection reflect on what it means to them. Throughout March, the month-long event organised by Grow ...

East London is synonymous with the accent, slang and traditions of Cockneys but a trip to Surrey's very own museum showed me there appears to be a new home for the capital's most iconic traditions.

A guy walks into a doctor’s office and says, “Doc, wiv dis Billy Ray Cyrus, I can’t stop Wallace and Gromiting and I ‘ave a ‘orrible on and off. Do you ‘ave any Thomas Edison what won’t hurt me ...

Instead, a new variety of Cockney (Multicultural London English) has developed in the east end - as spoken by the likes of rapper Dizzee Rascal - while more traditional sounding speakers have migrated ...