When someone from Britain speaks, Americans hear a "British accent"...

[Grant Edwards]

On 2005-06-29, Luis M. Gonzalez <luismgz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Grant Edwards wrote:
>> That depends on the accent.  I believe that's probably true for
>> the educated south of England, BBC, received pronunciation.  I
>> don't think that's true for some of the other dialects from
>> northern areas (e.g. Liverpool) or the "cockney" accent.
>
> What's exactly the "cockney" accent?

http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~lsp/CockneyEnglish.html

> Is it related to some place or it's just a kind of slang? I'm
> not sure, but I think that I read somewhere that it is common
> in some parts of London, and that it is a sign of a particular
> social class, more than a regionalism. Is that true?

I think it's both.

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