D'oh. There goes my complaint from last night.
It's not so much the accent that gets to me, although it is annoying, it's the
dialect. Seriously, how is anyone who grew up more than about 60 miles from Bow supposed to know what a "jam jar" is [besides something you put jam etc in], especially when they have such things as ASD as with me? I grew up less than 40 miles from Bow and that was the only instance of rhyming slang I knew before I left home! And there are some things that your average East Ender - and I don't just mean those who work at Elstree or wherever it is - will not pronounce properly, even though the obviously can. This is especially true of the tendency to needlessly drag out vowels to the point that they sound like something else, as with such words as "out", "oi", and "my". And don't even get me started on such "words" as "innit", "bruv" or the dreaded "ain't"...
The worst thing about it though is the spread of the language. I mentioned Bow earlier because a traditional Cockney had to have been born within audible (I think it was audible as opposed to visual) range of Bow church. Last I checked, neither of Harlow and Basildon was anywhere near that range. Damned New Towns Programme, bringing the Cockneys into Essex!
/anti-Cockney rant
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Another one now: People who spoilt their children and then claim otherwise. I don't mind hypocrisy as such, but this is not only setting a bad example (to the children and anyone else witnessing the scenario) but also an extreme case of the "H"-word!
I should have taken the apostrophe's one (use of linguistically incorrect "baker's apostrophe" intended)...
