The word 'cockney' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to people who were born or raised in the East End of London, or to describe their accent or dialect. For example: "The character in the novel spoke with a distinctive cockney accent."
Faint, adopting the cockney drawl he reserves for grown-ups who don't get it, winces a bit at the idea.
Winstone, just 20 at the time, is swaggeringly scary as Trainee 4737 Carlin: the cockney new kid on the block, nicked for stealing scrap metal and determined to become "top dog".
Danny Green plays punchy ex-boxer "One-Round", Peter Sellers's Harry is the archetypal cockney spiv, Cecil Parker's seedy ex-officer Major Courtney a recurrent postwar figure.
My students were on an advanced level although I'm sure that they felt Del boy's cockney slang was almost a different language in itself.
"He's your cockney spiv of that age; likes the ladies but also quite addicted to pills.
And how do you handle vernacular so that it sounds authentic, such as Scottish, Yorkshire, patois, cockney?
He says the show was a big hit: "My students were on an advanced level although I'm sure that they felt Del boy's cockney slang was almost a different language in itself.
It's a fascinating time, isn't it, but we do have rose-tinted specs about it, particularly in cockney world".
Superficially, the town is replete with cultural signifiers of a completely different universe from central-belt Scotland Essexx, the cockney diaspora, St George's flags.
I have sympathy for Dick Van Dyke's attempt at cockney in the film of Mary Poppins.
A marginal class distinction old cockney crime gangs such as the Krays and Richardsons were working-class; the boys in blue tended to be lower-middle-class was the main difference between them.
