[Windflier]

Well, I can definitely tell Posh from non-Posh ;)

Ever talk to a true Cockney? I have. I usually understood about every third word.

[Bikkuri]

One of my closest friends here spoke it... he told great jokes... made it even funnier that I could barely understand half of what he said, lol!

Sadly, about 6 years ago, he went to the UK for Christmas with his wife.. they never came back.. Said he had enough of the bureaucratic crappola here (and high expenses)..

[boop]

"Ever talk to a true Cockney? I have. I usually understood about every third word."

So true! They speak this weird slang where they rhyme words and it means something else.

Like "dog and bone" means telephone.

Now how the hell would a non-cockney ever understand that?

I was on a cruise once and a Cockney couple was assigned to our table. The guy LOVED to talk, but all I got was: blah blah blah, coach, blah blah blah sloe, etc.

I eventually realized that they took a bus (coach) to the airport. And that one of his hobbies was growing "sloes" as in the berries that flavor gin.

I wonder if he found MY accent hard to understand.