Cockney Dialect Vowel Substitutions Ah to Aw Off

Cockney Dialect

Vowel Substitutions • Ah to Aw • Off, fork, walk, forty, important, hospital, sauce, awful • He’s got no fork to eat the sauce/Paul thought they took an awful fall

Dipthongal changes • Ee to eh-ee • Me, see, speak, tea, scenes, Japanese, beat, need • The bee did not like my tea. / She beat the tree with a key.

Dipthongal changes • Oo to eh-oo • Too, boot, who, boost, coo, prove, cool, through • Coo, it’s too cool to put the glue through. / Who gave the boot to the youth?

Dipthongal Changes • Ay-ee to ah-ee • Rain day, place, name, break, obtain, paper, stranger, great, able, representation, Shakespeare • It was a great shame the paper got lost in the rain. / Shakespeare had able representation in the case.

Dipthongal Changes • Ah-ee to oy • Sign, Night, time, I, why, like, life, dry, crime • We had a right fine time. / At night Eliza signed the pipe.

Tripthongal Changes • Oh to Ah-ee-oo • Go, don’t, stone, slow, old, over, stacatto • Don’t throw the stone at Jove. /He told the old gentleman to hold the rope.

Consonant changes • Silent H • Home, hide, henry, who, prohibit, rehearse, inhale • What’s so hideous about your home, Henry? / Hey, Harry, listen here to her.

Consonant Changes • In for ing • Walking, running, hopping, feeling • Talking and hitting and hurting. / There’s lodging at Newington and Billingsgate.

Consonant Changes • Ink for ing • Nothing, something, asking • Something is better than nothing. / Anything you say.

Consonant Changes • F for th • Think, thing, nothing, anything, nothing, something • I think you better do nothing. / something or something, nothing or nothing.

Consonant changes • Glottal stop for tt • Little, bottle, lot, glottis, pretty, literary, gentlemen, citizen, nip, got • The tittle-tattle paid off for pretty Betty. / You got a lot of nerve to close the glottis.

Glottal stop practice drill • • • Betty Botter bought some butter, "But, " she said, "this butter's bitter; If I put it in my batter, It will make my batter bitter; But a bit of better butter, Better than the bitter butter Will but make my bitter batter better. " So she bought a bit of better butter, Better than the bitter butter, and made her bitter batter better.