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HMFindlay Posted 20 years ago
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Cockney Alert!
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00 In Poplar... 02 br
00 My dad came from Wopping and my mom came from Poplar. My dad was one of 11 kids... and Wopping in them days really was one of the poorest parts of London. I mean they really didn't have shoes on their feet. I'm talking about 70 years ago now. Erm... and Poplar was... sli... just slightly a cut above Wopping; erm... you was either East End respectable or you was sort of East End villain, and my family was respectable on both sides. 02 br
00 But my father had a very tough time because his father died when he was 19, leaving him the only one working to bring up eleven brothers... 10 brothers and sisters and on a Thursday night he'd sometimes go home and the youngest two would be crying in the corner and he'd say "what's the matter with them, ma?" "Oh,well, Harry, you know it's Thursday night, and you don't get paid till' tomorrow" and they literally didn't have any food in the house. 02 br
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00 I want to ask: 02 br
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00 and Wopping 01 b 00 in them days 02 b 00 - 01 b 00 you was 02 b 00 either East End 02 br
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00 Are those two features only used in speech or also applied in their writing? 0230href http://www.gazzaro.it/accents/sound/Cockney.mp3
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00 In Poplar... 02 br
00 My dad came from Wopping and my mom came from Poplar. My dad was one of 11 kids... and Wopping in them days really was one of the poorest parts of London. I mean they really didn't have shoes on their feet. I'm talking about 70 years ago now. Erm... and Poplar was... sli... just slightly a cut above Wopping; erm... you was either East End respectable or you was sort of East End villain, and my family was respectable on both sides. 02 br
00 But my father had a very tough time because his father died when he was 19, leaving him the only one working to bring up eleven brothers... 10 brothers and sisters and on a Thursday night he'd sometimes go home and the youngest two would be crying in the corner and he'd say "what's the matter with them, ma?" "Oh,well, Harry, you know it's Thursday night, and you don't get paid till' tomorrow" and they literally didn't have any food in the house. 02 br
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00 I want to ask: 02 br
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00 and Wopping 01 b 00 in them days 02 b 00 - 01 b 00 you was 02 b 00 either East End 02 br
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00 Are those two features only used in speech or also applied in their writing? 0230href http://www.gazzaro.it/accents/sound/Cockney.mp3
Top answer
0 Hi, 02 br 02 br 00 People who speak this way often write this way as well. However, such people do not always do a lot of writing. 02 br 02 br 00 Best wishes, Clive 0-
- 0 Hi, 02 br 02 br 00 People who speak this way often write this way as well.
- However, such people do not always do a lot of writing.
- 02 br 02 br 00 Best wishes, Clive 0-
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0 Hi, 02 br
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00 People who speak this way often write this way as well. However, such people do not always do a lot of writing. For example, they do not typically work in jobs where writing is an important requirement. 02 br
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00 Best wishes, Clive 0-
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00 People who speak this way often write this way as well. However, such people do not always do a lot of writing. For example, they do not typically work in jobs where writing is an important requirement. 02 br
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00 Best wishes, Clive 0-
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0 As a footnote: that should be "Wapping". 02 br
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00 "You was" and "them" for "those" are both common in BrE regional dialects; they're not limited to "Cockney". They turn up in emails, etc., but as Clive suggests, not very often in e.g. business correspondence. 02 br
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00 Interestingly, "you was" sometimes also appears in C18 and early C19 novels, in the
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00 "You was" and "them" for "those" are both common in BrE regional dialects; they're not limited to "Cockney". They turn up in emails, etc., but as Clive suggests, not very often in e.g. business correspondence. 02 br
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00 Interestingly, "you was" sometimes also appears in C18 and early C19 novels, in the
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