LONDON (Reuters Life!) - A London arts center is compiling an archive of poetry and phrases in the city's historic Cockney dialect as a study shows the accent is being driven out of the capital by the ...

As English dialects go, cockney is one of the most influential. Long considered the preserve of working-class communities in east London, it has shaped the way people speak across the country, from ...

Sitting on the floor of a rehearsal room in east London in leggings, T-shirts and headbands, a group of teenage dancers laughed about how quickly their language changes, rattling off "old" words still ...