text: Cockney - correct spelling.\n\nAn accent of the East End of London.  Traditionally, (and this is almost under the 'folklore' heading nowadays) if you were born within earshot of Bow Bells (the bells at the Church of Our Lady of Bow), you were deemed to be a Cockney.\n\nIf you have satellite TV, watch BBC Prime and editions of 'Eastenders' soap to hear what it sounds like.  (If you can bear the excruciating acting, that is!)