Common as Muck or Speaking the Queen's English? Why We All Need to Watch Our Mouths
Daniel Warner
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Posted 05.11.2012
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UK Lifestyle
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Recently I read that within 15 years the true London or "cockney" accent will be extinct. Immigration, the influence of film & music and the "Americanisation" of society will leave the Pearly Kings & Queens of the East End and the true cockney sparrows who were born within the sound of Bow Bells as dead as a Dodo.
