Alfie and Kat from the BBC soap, Eastenders. Yvonne and Alice discuss a type of English called Cockney that some people speak in East London. In this programme, they listen to some examples of Cockney ...

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 ...

How did we get the phrase “use your loaf”, meaning “use your head”? Well, it dates to the late-19th century, and is drawn from Cockney rhyming slang; in which head, is “loaf of bread”. Cockney vendors ...

The Cockney accent is synonymous with east London legends like Barbara Windsor and Michael Caine. But even though you might not Adam and Eve it, researchers say that the dialect has now become 'one of ...