Cockney Australian&the Rest

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Born within the sound of


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Cockney

The term Cockney refers to both theaccent as well as to those peoplewho speak it.

The etymology of Cockney discussedand disputed.

"Cockney" = cock's egg, amisshapen egg such as sometimeslaid by young hens.

Originally used when referring to aweak townsman o osed to the
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Cockney

The Cockney accent generallyconsidered one of the broadest of theBritish accents heavily stigmatized.

Epitomizes the working class accentsof Londoners and in its more dilutedform, of other areas.

The area and its colourful charactersand accents have often become thefoundation for British "soap operas"

and other television specials.


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The most striking features of Cockney:

r pronounced only when followed

immediately by a vowel-sound. ( no rin flowers, force, poor) Some NewEngland accents and Southern U.S.

accents have this same feature. Dropped h at beginning of words

(Voiceless glottal fricative):

house = ouse; hammer = ammer l pronounced only when a vowel-

sound follows (no l in hole).

th frontin involves the re lacement
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Rhyming slang

Cockney is characterized by its ownspecial vocabulary and usage, andtraditionally by its own development

of rhyming slang a secret language of the London

underworld from the 1850's

continued to grow and reflect newtrends and wider usage, notablyleading to Australian and American

rhyming slang expressions.


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Cockney rhyming slang usessubstitute words, usually two, as a

coded alternative for another word.The final word of the substitutephrase rhymes with the word itreplaces

(e.g.- the cockney rhyming slang

for the word 'look' is 'butcher'shook'). When only the first word ofthe replacement phrase is used, as

is usual, the meaning is difficult to' ' = ' '


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Translate:

'Allo me old china - wot say we popround the Jack. I'll stand you a pig andyou can rabbit on about your teapots.

We can 'ave some loop and tommyand be off before the dickory hitstwelve.

Hello my old mate (china plate) - whatdo you say we pop around to the bar

(Jack Tar). I'll buy you a beer (pig's ear)


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Another attempt

"Got to my mickey, found me way upthe apples, put on me whistle and thebloody dog went. It was me trouble

telling me to fetch the teapots."

"Got to my house (mickey mouse),found my way up the stairs (applesand pears), put on my suit (whistle andflute) when the phone (dog and bone)

rang. It was my wife (trouble and


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Some established terms generallyused

"I haven't heard a dicky bird about it"(dickie bird = word)

"Use your loaf and think next time"(loaf of bread = head)

"Did you half-inch that car?" (half-

inch = pinch, meaning steal) "You will have to speak up, he's a bit

mutton" (mutt'n'jeff = deaf)

"I'm going on my tod" (tod sloan =


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Have a butchers at thismaze

Bottle meant arse (bottle & glass =arse)

Became Aristotle Shortened to Aris (as in: I fell on my

Aris)

Became plaster (from plaster ofParis)

In brief:


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The final task on Cockneydecifer thealphabet

A for Horses

B for Mutton

C for Yourself

D for fer Ential

E for Adam

F for Been Had

G for Get It

H for Retirement

I for an eye

J for Oranges

Kfor Restaurant

M for Sis

N for a Lope

O for the GardenWall

P for Relief

Q for the Loos

R for Bitter

S for you
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Cockneyoverture

The Cockney Bible
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Echoes of an English Voice

CockneyinAustralianEnglish:Swearing and Greetings:bugger off, bleeding, mate (Gday

mate!)chum, love Irishlargest group of Exiles,

dominant speech in the longrun.

Result of theamalgamation:

New, accepted, Australian accent.
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The Landscape of DiscoveryJames Cook landed and Pidgin Englishdeveloped

Aboriginal words: Billabong, Jumbuck,Boomerang

Few Aboriginal words in English:plants,trees, birds (kookaburra), animals (wallaby,wombat), fish (barramundi)

The aboriginals adopted some maritime


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The Flash language- new words necessary: different flora &fauna!

- Convicts: (argot) (=Language used bycriminals)

from English, Scottish and Irishfrom lower classesfrom urban, industrial society.

- Convict words: swag, swagmantucker (=food) the tuck shop

- Americanisms: goldfields-immigration.


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British English Australian English American English

tap tap Faucet

Motorways Freeways Freeways

Lift Lift Elevators elevators

Petrol Petrol Gasteetotaller wowser

POMMY = an Englishman. FrompomegranatePOME = Prisoner of Mother England ??


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Three levels of Australian English:Cultivated Australian (RP)Broad Australian (Paul Hogan)

General Australian (mix) Nevertheless egalitarian in nature. The rising inflection = question-

tone - A feed, a frostie and, a feature - Abbreviations: Garbo


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Waltzing Matilda (Banjo Patterson, 1895)

Once a jollyswagman campedby a billabong

Under the shade ofa coolibah tree,

And he sang as he

watched andwaited till his billyboiled

"You'll come a-

Down came thesquatter,mounted on histhoroughbred,

Down came thetroopers, one,two, three,

"Where's that jollyjumbuck you'vegot in your tucker

bag?"

C i Ab i i ld E di l d
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Convicts Aborigines older E. dialect words

(Cockneys)native features words

(kangaroo, etc.)

(18th c. London criminal slang)

Flash language (convi ct slang)

billy (can)swag (bundle) , mug, pigs tucker (food)

squatter , chum dinkum (work)

cobber (friend)corker (sth.

great)wowser (kill -joy

teetotaller)

billabong , coolibah tree

WALTZING MATILDA


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New Zealand English

Young agrarian country (1840: Treaty ofWaitangi)

Scottish on the South Island(Southland Burr)Canterbury = Haarlem

Maori words for plants, animals etc.(flora/fauna)kete(Maori) kit (basket), hoot,

dragging the chain


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CanterburyInvercargillDunedin


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South African EnglishAfrikaans the language of theoppressor

veldt, trek, apartheid.English the language of theopposition.

After Mandelas presidency:English rather than Afrikaans (or Zulu

languages)


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The New Englishes - 1

The Latin example for English:more and more varieties of Englishresulting in many varieties not

understanding each other. Jamaican English: linguistic

nationalism

Jamaican Creole, patois, the dialect.Oral standard

Reggae >> Dub poetry (the baby of


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Indian English: Its not pure English, but its like the

English of Shakespeare, Joyce and

Kipling gloriously impure. Taught as a second language in all

states and at every stage of

education. English Universities


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TheLanguagesOfIndia


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The New Englishes - 3 Words:

curry, rajah, coolie, juggernaut,bungalow, verandah, jungle.

900 Indian words in the Oxford

Dictionary. Three characteristics of Indian

English:

1. Archaic words: Whats the time by yourtime-piece.

2. Words borrowed from Indianlanguages3. Combinin two words for a new


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Cliche oriented:each and everynation building, a change of heart

Authors:Rudyard Kipling: The Jungle book.E.M.Forster:A passage to India


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Singapore:

Focus on international contacts.

National pride in their own variety ofEnglish

An active slang is a sign that alanguage is alive.

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