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Yeh it’s strange it includes cockney so prominently. It isn’t really very present unless you spend time around the various gentlemen frequenting sports pubs and

Yeh it’s strange it includes cockney so prominently. It isn’t really very present unless you spend time around the various gentlemen frequenting sports pubs and pie and mash shops in east London, or if you take a black cab very often. I’d say the “roadman” dialect, mixing cockney and Jamaican patois, plus grime vibes, is FAR more common. I’ll hear it everyday wandering around South and east London. I guess it’s a London dialect so it’s in that umbrella,… but how come cockney gets such a fat slab of land?

KaiserPro 1y ago
> pie and mash shops p-aye an mashhhh, bruv
- simonh 1y ago
  You used to be able to get pie, mash and liquor round me in the Bexley area until about 10 years ago, but the ones I knew have closed now and I don’t know where the nearest place is. Not sure if you can still get Jellied Eels in Eltham, which would be a shame if you can’t.
  - KaiserPro 1y ago
    I heard one of manzies shut down in bermondsey this year, but there is a new one on the isle of sheppey.
    - 0x91 1y ago
      it was the deptford one. the bermondsey and peckham ones are still going strong.
- throwawayE3 1y ago
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ascorbic 1y ago
That's multicultural London English, or MLE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicultural_London_English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicultural_London_English