Tower Hamlets’ recognition of Cockney as a “community language” celebrates the role that all English dialects play in shaping individual and community identities.
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Accents are constantly changing.
The aggressive efforts of social media platforms to police language have spawned a new lexicon meant to evade censors.
When over a million east Londoners moved to Essex in the second half of the 20th century, they took their accent with them.
Barbara Windsor was the Cockney queen of EastEnders but you’re more likely to hear her famous accent in Essex now rather than London.
