Alfie and Kat from the 成人快手 soap, Eastenders.
Yvonne and Alice discuss a type of English called Cockney that some people speak in East London. In this programme, they listen to some examples of Cockney and explain what they would sound like in regular English.
This week's question:
In August of 2009, a business decided to officially recognise the cockney language by delivering its services using Cockney rhyming slang for three months. Can you guess what type of business it was?
a) a hotel
b) a restaurant or
c) a financial business
Listen out for the answer in the programme.
Listen
London English: Cockney
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Vocabulary
- evolving
gradually changing, developing and adapting
- dialect
version of a language spoken by a particular group of people or in a particular area
- curator
person in charge of gathering objects for exhibitions in museums or galleries
- descent
here, a person's family background, specifically the nationality of their family
- immigrate
to come to live in a country after leaving your own
- code
here, a secret language or system of replacing words with others so that only certain people can understand its meaning
- ruling class
a group of the most powerful of people in charge of government
- sense of identity
special things about a particular group of people which they share and can be recognised by
- roots
here, the place where a person comes from
- delivering its services
making its products and help available to customers
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