Quote:The Cockney language is crazy ridiculous to try to read and understand. I'm reading the Call the Midwife series and it's almost headache inducing with the dropped letters and backward words and rhyming. Thankfully they author translated for the readers. I am to understand that there isn't a Cockney 'population' anymore with the destruction of the old tennaments bombed in the Blitz in Poplar and relocation of all the people back in the 50's-60's.

 

I find the British, Irish and Scottish accents all to be pretty neat. Sometimes hard to understand, but neat. I had an Australian friend in Germany who taught me the words for different things like trainers, jumpers, [BAD WORD REMOVED], boxes, the loo and others I can't remember right now. 

 

Like 'rubbish' instead or 'trash' and 'crisps' instead of 'chips' - what we call chips are what you call fries and so on..

 

My best friend lives in Florida and his wife is from Oviedo, we always have banter over FaceTime regarding pronounciation of words... I tend to make fun of her pronounciation of 'buoy' - it sounds like 'boo-ey' when she says it, when we say it it sounds like 'boy'.

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