Mockney

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As Mockney ( portmanteau of "mock" (English. Mimic ) and " Cockney ") is in England someone called who is trying to present himself as a Cockney (or in a broader sense as a member of the working class ) with the intention of credibility to gain . A stereotypical mockney comes from the middle class in the counties around London . Furthermore, an imitation of their typical London sociolect or dialect of the same name is also called this.

Damon Albarn , Jamie Oliver , Mick Jagger and Mike Skinner , among others, had to put up with the Mockney accusation .

Individual evidence

  1. Dialect disaster Lena Meyer-Landrut