The East End’s Eliza Doolittles have long since moved away–not to rural Hertford, Hereford and Hampshire, mind you, but to suburban Essex and Kent, where their cockney rhyming slang is hardly heard.

The pearly king of Woolwich and his mouse turned heads at the Modern Cockney Festival The Modern Cockney Festival concluded recently with the dialect being officially recognised as a community ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The unofficial ‘Speak Cockney Day’ is just around the corner, meaning you don’t have much time to brush up on your London slang.

The ‘half and half’ balance means those born and bred in the area can enjoy the new wave of creative businesses, but some ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - A London arts center is compiling an archive of poetry and phrases in the city's historic Cockney dialect as a study shows the accent is being driven out of the capital by the ...

Americans and Britons share the same language, yet transatlantic visitors to the London Olympics might struggle to understand what's going on. The games are in East London, home of rhyming slang, a ...

For the next three months a cluster of East London ATMs will be offering customers the chance to withdraw cash using written prompts in Cockney rhyming slang. It works by replacing a word with a short ...

The unofficial ‘Speak Cockney Day’ is just around the corner, meaning you don’t have much time to brush up on your London slang. Aligning with the Modern Cockney Festival, which takes place throughout ...