Cockney: A History of People and Rhyme

Let’s take a butcher’s at the history of cockneys and their rhyming slang...

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Map showing Bow Bells Areas of Earshot from The Times Atlas of London (2012). Compiled by 24 Acoustics Ltd for Collins Bartholomew.

Cover to Cant Dictionary (2014) - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cant-Gentlem...

Audiobook artwork for The Best of Round the Horne - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Best-Round-H...

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James Gillray’s Cockney Sportsmen etchings (1800). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.

James Mahony's 1871 engraving of the Artful Dodger (left) introducing himself to Oliver as "Jack Dawkins," known as "the artful Dodger". Held by the Fondo Antiguo de la Biblioteca de la Universidad de Sevilla.

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Algospeak table from Steen, Ella & Yurechko, Kathryn & Klug, Daniel. (2023). You Can (Not) Say What You Want: Using Algospeak to Contest and Evade Algorithmic Content Moderation on TikTok. Social Media + Society. 9. 20563051231194586. 10.1177/20563051231194586.


Quoted texts:

Oxford English Dictionary, s.v. “cockney (n. & adj.),” September 2024, https://doi.org/10.1093/OED/1524559535.

Beier, A. L. “Identity, Language, and Resistance in the Making of the Victorian ‘Criminal Class’: Mayhew’s Convict Revisited.” Journal of British Studies, vol. 44, no. 3, 2005, pp. 499–515. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.1086/429703. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

Dart, Gregory. “The Cockney Moment.” The Cambridge Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 3, 2003, pp. 203–23. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/42967610. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

Scott, Derek B. “The Music-Hall Cockney: Flesh and Blood, or Replicant?” Music & Letters, vol. 83, no. 2, 2002, pp. 237–58. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/3526497. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

Oxford English Dictionary, s.v. “mockney (n. & adj.),” July 2023, https://doi.org/10.1093/OED/7831913942.

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