English Conversations » Bricklayers-Arms http://englishconversations.org Practical Conversations for Language Learners Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:45:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Cockney Accent http://englishconversations.org/2009/10/31/meeting-a-ninety-four-year-old-cockney/ http://englishconversations.org/2009/10/31/meeting-a-ninety-four-year-old-cockney/#comments Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:14:56 +0000 Mark White http://englishconversations.org/2009/10/31/meeting-a-ninety-four-year-old-cockney/ Download audio file (cockney.mp3)

Londoner: Great Dover Street. SE1. You know Great Dover Street? Near the Bricklayer’s Arms.
Ninety-four year old year old Cockney Man: EC1?
Londoner: SE1. SE1.
Ninety-four year old Cockney Man: SE1. Lovely.
Australian: Is that cockney?
Londoner: No. No. No. It is halfway between London Bridge and the Elephant and Castle. Borough.
Ninety-four year old Cockney Man: May I ask your age, sir?
Londoner: Forty-four.
Ninety-four year old Cockney man: Forty-four. Hello, son.
(the sound of hands shaking)

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