With the 3rd of March, the ‘Fird of the Fird’ or ‘Speak Cockney Day’, rapidly approaching, it is time for Andy Green and Saif Osmani to get ready for the next run of their Cockney Cultures events. Andy and Saif have been organising activities and talks around Cockney dialect and culture for several years withContinue reading “The Modern Cockney Festival 2023”
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‘Could be better, could be worse’
Ron is a churchwarden in a small village near Upminster in Essex together with Frank. Ron’s parents were from the East End, spoke with an East End accent, and Ron also spent his formative years in Hackney. However, when his family moved to Upminster in the 1950s, his accent changed, ‘because in those days thereContinue reading “‘Could be better, could be worse’”
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