Where is the Cockney dialect of English spoken?

Over the centuries, the cockney accent has become synonymous with working-class London. Specifically, it's associated with the East End of London. The "traditional" way of defining who counts as being cockney was if they were "born within the sound of Bow Bells," meaning a person was born close to the St. Mary-le-Bow church in Cheapside, London. While this may have been accurate, you don't have to go to London at all to hear a cockney accent. This accent, emerging from a small section of a city, has had an impact around the world.

A study by Paul Kerswill, Professor of Sociolinguistics at Lancaster University shows the Cockney accent will move further east.

In London, Cockney will be replaced by Multicultural London English - a mixture of Cockney, Bangladeshi and West Indian accents - the study shows.

"It will be gone within 30 years," says Prof Kerswill.