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Originally Posted by SunnyDay I see. Sounds like Cokney would be the equivilant of, say, ghetto slang here? |
Except that Cockneys are perceived as being helpful, decent, generous people with a sense of humour and very long heritage. They may indulge in crime, but crime of the harmless sort -- selling stuff at market that should have gone to the dump, for example.
That's a stereotype, of course, and a rather condescending one at that, but the Cockney dialect is generally associated with positive characteristics.