To ask if you like the Cockney accent?

[StaceySt]

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.

Yes. There's a cockney in my office

I think the slang is a load of shit though

I can see why you find it endearing. I think for me I always assume people with cockney accents are proper 'Jack the lads' so I couldn't trust it

I've lived abroad for years now, and I honestly can't understand many regional British accents any more!

I do like Micky Flanagan's though, especially with his vocabulary. Does he speak like that in real life, or does he exaggerate for his stand up shows? Love his cockney gander/walk too, when he's on stage!

The Northern accent is nice.

What's a Northern accent? 😂

I'm not a massive fan of Cockney, but I like the fact that it exists IYSWIM? I find a Geordie accent very sexy actually, and after watching Lady Chatterley's Lover last night am suddenly rather a fan of a Nottinghamshire accent

@Georgyporky - it's interesting when you see for example, repeats of 80s sitcoms like 'Terry and June' - when you see someone in a working class trade profession - the caricaturing of them is hilarious !

I don't like the slang to be fair and know of no one who uses it in real life

My partner's from a council estate with a rough reputation but is the least rough person imaginable - just decent, straightforward (but can look after himself/defend other people)

Right up until the end, at least 😁

Ughhh I hate it. Danny Dyer reminder 🤮

I love a proper cockney accent. It’s dying out, though.

Essex isn’t the same. And a lot of young people in London don’t speak like that at all now, bruv/fam .

I've got a cockney accent but now live in the north.
How many times have I heard
"Get outta ma pub"😂
I hate hearing myself speak especially if I've been recorded.
When I meet new people I turn into the queen mum and sound even worse
"Ho how har you"
Christ I'm a moron 🙄😂

I can't differentiate cockney, Essex, South London etc, they all sound the same to me. Not a huge fan of that accent mainly because I associate it with spivs and wide boys. Or racist football hooligans. Or people screaming at each other in Eastenders.

I love it, i grew up with a strong Cockney accent (dads family all working class Eastenders) but eventually lost it when my mum moved us to Gloucestershire, and i was badly bullied because of it.
However, at 59 i click straight back if talking to anyone with the accent.
Its great!

Love it.

I like it a lot, but I agree that it's rarer and rarer (although I don't know what 'MLE' mentioned by PP means, and I live in East/Central London).

My nails-down-a-blackboard accents are Geordie and any broad Yorkshire, although both are really for reasons linked to actual people and experiences rather than the way anyone speaks.

What a fucking snobby thread.

We are from London. Proper old school
London cockney accents cos we were born and bred there.

It really doesn’t matter how a person speaks . It’s what’s on the inside and to judge a person based on this is proper full on shallow.

Not being outing but my DH has an amazing job and earns a lot. He is a cockney and works with some veh veh posh people in his industry. No one gives a fuck how he sounds as he amazing at what he does and is very well respected.

I'm not from the UK and can't differentiate between London accents. I don't like a strong London accent and the Essex accent is like nails on a chalkboard to me. I also dislike the Manchester accent, it sounds like a continuous whine. I love an RP accent and I work in an industry where it's the most common accent. The accent that makes we weak is a Derry accent, pure fanny gallops😁
I once met a beautiful, dark haired Welsh man with a deep voice and the most knee weakening Welsh accent, it was the only time I regreted being married😂

Can’t bear it, sorry!

It's interesting isn't it how opinion is divided. These 2 would be amongst my least liked accents. We seem to be polar opposites. I'm quite partial to a neutral 'posh' accent.
Just out of interest @Notimeforaname where do you stand on 'foreign' accents. Russian, South African, maybe Australian yes please .... French and Italian 🤢

Think it depends where you grew up. To me it's a comforting accent. I have an Estuary English accent normally but I found in business meetings it was better to hide that accent. With friends I'm more relaxed and my true accent comes out. Micky Flanagan in female form! 😂

Totally love it.
Love Georgie accent too.

That's a good way of describing it. Jamie Oliver sounds to me as if he has a speak impediment brought on by a gigantic tongue and a slack jaw.
I still remember my exs Cockley cousin saying she 'was going to Wows'. I thought doescthat mean 'impress', as in Wowzer maybe? She was actually going to Whales! About 5 times she just starts at me and mouthed 'wows'. Afterwards I said to my ex how awkward that was and I wish he had warned me about her disability. I was so shocked that she chose to talk that way. It was as if her jaw was totally slack and too 'heavy' to move!

I think you meant fakkin

Northern where? London? Newcastle? Scotland? Lights?

Jamie Oliver doesn't have anything like a cockney accent. Authentic mockney