Page 2 | To ask if you like the Cockney accent?

StaceySt · 2023-03-07T17:45:55+00:00

I've known my partner since our teenage years but we've only got together as a couple since 2021. I had a crush on him when we were teenagers but he then dated someone else in the group. As I got to know him I grew up love his decent, straightforward personality and I realised his accent was very 'Blimey, Guv'nor!' - but I loved it! In the intervening years his accent hasn't been modified at all - my accent is closer to the generic South East England accent FWIW.

Mittens1717 · 07/03/2023 17:58

I'm Irish and I adore the cockney accent, it's the only accent I truly love

PermanentTemporary · 07/03/2023 17:58

Is Stacey Solomon cockney or Essex? Love her accent. But that's partly because she uses her voice brilliantly. She's a performer, a storyteller. She does loads of interesting vocal effects to make the joke or the emotion hit harder. The accent is part of that.

SirenSays · 07/03/2023 17:58

Definitely not. Thats the accent we put on to jokingly tell the dogs to stop being little shits 😬

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StaceySt · 07/03/2023 17:58

peppermintteadrinker · 07/03/2023 17:55

I live in midlands. I'm from north. Next door very loud neighbours are from Essex. I cannot bear it.

I quite liked it in Gavin and Stacey but booming through the wall is not fun.

Cockney.. can't say I've met many in the wild 😉 I imagine I would find it jarring. Oddly, I don't like scouse accent either. Good job we are all different isn't it!

My partner's not exactly from the 'East End' but if he's asked his attitude to money it's:

"You can't tyke it wivvya"

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StaceySt · 07/03/2023 17:59

SirenSays · 07/03/2023 17:58

Definitely not. Thats the accent we put on to jokingly tell the dogs to stop being little shits 😬

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StaceySt · 07/03/2023 17:59

Mittens1717 · 07/03/2023 17:58

I'm Irish and I adore the cockney accent, it's the only accent I truly love

Me too actually!

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WestendVBroadway · 07/03/2023 17:59

I would never judge anyone by their accent. However to answer your question I would have to say an East End 'Landen' accent would be my least favourite.

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StaceySt · 07/03/2023 18:00

PermanentTemporary · 07/03/2023 17:58

Is Stacey Solomon cockney or Essex? Love her accent. But that's partly because she uses her voice brilliantly. She's a performer, a storyteller. She does loads of interesting vocal effects to make the joke or the emotion hit harder. The accent is part of that.

Stacey Solomon's Essex .. I think

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Hotvimto3 · 07/03/2023 18:00

StaceySt · 07/03/2023 17:53

I love the Geordie one !

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Ewww i cant stand the geordie accent at all. I like the true cockney accent a lot, Liverpool too.

SiobhanSharpe · 07/03/2023 18:00

I like all accents from around the UK and Ireland, save one -- from the Hull/possibly south Yorks area.
Where they say noee-err instead of no. That's the one. Like the 'Hull-raisers' prog on't telly. Just find it hard on the ear.

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StaceySt · 07/03/2023 18:00

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 07/03/2023 17:56

Our fab school caretaker is an ex-pat Cockney. His accent is luvvly, guvna!

love it!

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Goodread1 · 07/03/2023 18:01

I like Cockney rymmying slang reminds me of Caribbean patois

I like Cockney characters such as Bill Syks from Oliver musical

Mary Poppins Dick van Dyke character in this film

I can't rember his name

Hotvimto3 · 07/03/2023 18:01

PermanentTemporary · 07/03/2023 17:58

Is Stacey Solomon cockney or Essex? Love her accent. But that's partly because she uses her voice brilliantly. She's a performer, a storyteller. She does loads of interesting vocal effects to make the joke or the emotion hit harder. The accent is part of that.

Very much Essex

Yesthatismychildsigh · 07/03/2023 18:01

No, not at all. Everyone likes different things, though. And you like it so that’s great.

JustGotToKeepOnKeepingOn · 07/03/2023 18:02

No - in particular the use of 'ff' instead of 'th'.

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StaceySt · 07/03/2023 18:02

SiobhanSharpe · 07/03/2023 18:00

I like all accents from around the UK and Ireland, save one -- from the Hull/possibly south Yorks area.
Where they say noee-err instead of no. That's the one. Like the 'Hull-raisers' prog on't telly. Just find it hard on the ear.

Ah .. I get exactly where you're coming from with the Hull thing - I once had a friend from Bridlington

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Imtryingnottobother · 07/03/2023 18:02

My main experience of Cockney’s outside of East Enders, is seemingly being stuck next to them on every beach holiday I’ve been on and they’ve always been very shouty and loud, so on that basis don’t like the accent.
If I got to know someone with that accent, it probably wouldn’t register unless they made a point of it, so it depends.

Oblomov23 · 07/03/2023 18:04

Nope.

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StaceySt · 07/03/2023 18:04

JustGotToKeepOnKeepingOn · 07/03/2023 18:02

No - in particular the use of 'ff' instead of 'th'.

My teenagers it was always a 'Maffs' lesson - never 'Maths!' - Maffs!!

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Spottyheadband · 07/03/2023 18:04

I had speech therapy when I was 5 so I can't even say th and it's always ff 😳

hattie43 · 07/03/2023 18:07

No .

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StaceySt · 07/03/2023 18:07

Imtryingnottobother · 07/03/2023 18:02

My main experience of Cockney’s outside of East Enders, is seemingly being stuck next to them on every beach holiday I’ve been on and they’ve always been very shouty and loud, so on that basis don’t like the accent.
If I got to know someone with that accent, it probably wouldn’t register unless they made a point of it, so it depends.

When we were in our teenage group it took me a while to realise how strong my partner's accent was, but it just endeared me more to him!

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bigTillyMint · 07/03/2023 18:08

I’ve lived in SE London for over 35 years, and it’s rare to hear a Cockney accent now, even in Bermondsey - most under 40s speak MLE. I reckon closer to Cockney in Essex?

Scouse is still my favourite, but more the 60s/70s version than the exaggerated one it has become. Geordie second.

FabFitFifties · 07/03/2023 18:08

Love it - makes even undesirables more attractive. I'm Geordie.

Hostofgoldendaffodils · 07/03/2023 18:08

Yes - Cockneys are the friendliest people ever.