Are there cockney equivalents in other parts of the UK?

Posted by EverydayIsAGift-423@reddit | AskABrit | View on Reddit | 9 comments

This came up in another Reddit about the most beautiful slug in the UK.

Would you reckon that Geordie/Scouse is the Yorkshire/Newcastle analog to the cockney working class accent and subculture?

Are there other parts of the UK where the local dialect/accent has features similar to cockney?

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UniversityPotential7@reddit

The short answer is no as scouse isn’t even Yorkshire is Liverpool. The long answer would take some time and I don’t currently have the patience.

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IxionS3@reddit

Would you reckon that Geordie/Scouse is the Yorkshire/Newcastle analog to the cockney working class accent and subculture?

Geordie is to Newcastle as Cockney is to London, more or less.

Scouse is to Yorkshire as Cockney is to Portsmouth; i.e. nothing to do with each other.

Scouse relates to Liverpool which is very much not in Yorkshire.

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Slight-Brush@reddit

Every single area of the UK has (or had) its own working-class accent and dialect terms.

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thewearisomeMachine@reddit

I have no idea what this question is asking

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dowker1@reddit

What is it that you think is unique about Cockney?

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There are hundreds of local accents and dialects all over the UK. In my home area on the Welsh Border you can locate the village or town a person comes from by their accent and by their use of dialect words. Recently I met up with school friends of forty years ago, many of whom had moved into new estates from Birmingham and elsewhere as children but now had definite traces of the accent and dialect from exposure and usage over the years.

What specific features of the various London accents are you looking for?

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Comfortable_Ad_4267@reddit

Most areas outside London until last quarter of the 20th Century had their own slang words.