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Ever wonder how hard it would be to master a Cockney English accent? With an audition less than a day away, actor Marty is up to the challenge! Watch as dialect coach Page Clements teaches him a ...

Compared to what the U.K. receives by way of American pop culture, the U.S. gets a fairly limited view of what British folk are actually like. As far as movies and TV go, the three most common ...

Well have a butcher’s at that, it seems people aren’t minding their Ps and Qs anymore. Researchers at the University of Essex have found that two of the most famous accents in the south of England ...

Cockney and received pronunciation (Queen’s English) were once spoken by people of all ages, but they are no longer commonly spoken among young people in the south-east of England. In new research, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The coded language created by the trading community native to London’s West End has dominated that city’s slang. See how it took shape, and what’s replacing it. How did we get the phrase “use your ...

Compared to what the U.K. receives by way of American pop culture, the U.S. gets a fairly limited view of what British folk are actually like. As far as movies and TV go, the three most common ...