1. By Nathan Phillips

2. (Accents can be similar but still distinct)
 Cockney
 Queen‟s English
 Jafaican

3. Brief overview
 Often refers to working class Londoners
 In the 1600‟s meant people born in earshot of
the Bow Bells.
 Is declining in use being replaced by Jafaican

4.  Distinct accent
 Rhythmic slang
 Non Rhotic
 Only pronounce /r/ when it is followed by a vowel
sound
 Glottal Stop
 Obstructing airflow in the vocal tract eg. uh-oh

5. Rhyming slang and its meanings!
 Phone - dog and bone
 Arms - Chalk Farm
 Boozer - battle cruiser
 Crap - Pony trap
Cockney uses phrases that rhyme with the word
they replace.

6.  Boat Race:
 face
 Adam and eve
 believe
 Alan Wickers
 knickers
 Apples and pears
 stairs
 Brahms and Liszt
 pissed
 Skin and blister
 sister

7.  Non standard (unusual structure of sentences)
 Uses double negatives
 Prepositions are dropped
 „to‟ and „at‟ are dropped often

8.  The specific rhyming slangs of cockney change
depending on the context to form the unique
meanings of this dialect. All of the subsystems in this
dialect help to create such a vibrant style of the
English language.

9. Brief overview
 Very posh compared to other dialects
 The dialect the Queen speaks
 Is the taught dialect of private schools
 Made/makes you look classy just speaking it
 Taught in foreign countries

10. Unique phonology to Queen‟s English
 Posh sounding (compared with other dialects)
 Slow and very precise (extreme clarity)
 Pronounce „t‟ and „h‟ unlike most other English
dialect

11.  Queen‟s English uses the absolute definition of
the word
 No phrases meaning something else like cockney
 All words are as they seem with no hidden
meaning

12.  Is the correct way of setting up phrases and
sentences in English
 Unlike other dialects it has no double negatives
or any other different styles of sentence making

13.  Received pronunciation (Queen‟s English) is
the most standard form of all English dialects.
It is the dialect most based on the Oxford
English Dictionary forming a very simple and
direct accent. Formed by a simple phonetic and
lexicon subsystem root.

14. Quick overview
 Spoken in inner London mainly by African-
English (black) people
 Emerged in the late 20th century
 Originated from the Caribbean, South Asia and
West Africa

15.  Non-rhotic
 Spoken fast
 Like Dizzee Rascal
 Do not pronounce „t‟
 „What‟ goes to „wha‟
 Thug/lad/yardie

16.  Like most dialects of English Jafaican has a
large amount of phrases meaning particular
things.
 The word „man‟ is used a lot in this dialect and
is mainly used at the end of a sentence for not
particular reason eg. “nice dress man” (Dizzee
Rascal to his female interviewer)
 A lot of the words used have different
meanings than you would expect like „salad
dodger‟ for an obese person

17.  Tense in Jafaican is switched around with past
tense being used much more often than present
or future.
 „was‟ is used in many occasions replacing other
more appropriate words in sentences.

18.  The specific thug style of Jafaican form a „cool‟
sounding dialect for (mainly) the youth of
London. The main aspects creating this dialect
are the phonetics and the lexicology of the
language.

19.  http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/cockney.as
px accessed 23/10/11
 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-
britain/jafaican-and-tikkiny-drown-out-the-east-
ends-cockney-twang-473688.html accessed
22/10/11
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dABo_DCId
pM accessed 23/10/11
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ijy0eYcP2hA
accessed 23/10/11
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jafaican#Phonolog
y accessed 20/10/11