Multicultural London English
Proper noun
Meaning
Multicultural London English
An English sociolect peculiar to modern-day London, being a mixture of Cockney, Jamaican, West African, and Indian accents and dialects.
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Examples
Baron Cohen has stated that BBC Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood was an influence on the development of his character Westwood used to host Radio 1's Rap Show and speaks in a faux Multicultural London English and hip hop dialect.
"Cockney in the East End is now transforming itself into Multicultural London English, a new, melting-pot mixture of all those people living here who learnt English as a second language", Prof Kerswill said.
The term also evolved to be used in Multicultural London English ; a 2002 UK Top 10 hit by the grime music group More Fire Crew was titled "Oi!"