Word: cockney
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Penn. Magazine has a new spelling for us, "Howard." We suppose it is some cockney pronunciation for Harvard, and that the Penn. has taken up the phonetic method...
More than once has a good honest American youth shaken hands with his classmates after the "Annuals," in a natural, unaffected way, and too often has three months in England or on the Continent produced wonderful changes. He returns with a studied stammer or a cockney drawl, and pronounces all his a's as broad alphas...