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The British Pier Deathmatch (20-08)

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GregP
GregP
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10:25am, 8 Jul 2020
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South of Newmarket and east of Weymouth there are two accents, rarely confused with each other - 'Basically Cockney', as you say and indeed as you claim I speak, and WWGS - MrsP speaks this, as does TRO.

Of course there is also the 'Outlandish Regionless Posh' spoken by the entitled few such as The Queen, Brian Sewell, Prince Charles and G1ngerDougal.
Nicholls595
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10:28am, 8 Jul 2020
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WWGS ?
GlennR
GlennR
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10:35am, 8 Jul 2020
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My dad used to call the Cambridge city accent plastic cockney. I’m not sure the term Estuary English was used then. In any case he was from Norfolk.
Derby Tup
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10:36am, 8 Jul 2020
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Everything south of Northampton is basically cockney is a fact
Diogenes
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Cockney is quite different to a generic London accent. Few of the Eastenders cast have cockney accents, just as I guess that not many Corrie characters have proper Mancunian accents.
Nicholls595
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10:39am, 8 Jul 2020
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In my head, Greppers, and everyone else from dahn sarf, talk like Micky Flanaghan.
Diogenes
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Ah, posh, you mean?
Nicholls595
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Yet in their own head....

GlennR
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10:49am, 8 Jul 2020
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I reckon that these days, what with yuppification and the drift east, you’d have to go to Poplar or East Ham to hear something approximating to a real cockney accent.

About This Thread

Maintained by GregP
Deathmatch closed 10/07/20
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GOLD: Llandudno Pier (Llandudno)

SILVER: Southend Pier (Southend-on-Sea) The longest pleasure pier in the world extending 2.1 km (1.3 miles) into the Thames Estuary.

BRONZE: Bournemouth Pier (Bournemouth) Zip wire installed in 2014, spanning between the pier head and the beach.
BRONZE: West Pier (Brighton) Opened in 1866, but closed in 1975 and subsequently fell into disrepair. Now classified as being a lost pier.
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