Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 10:25:04 -0600

From: Bruce Gelder bgelder[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CAMEL.CORP.ES.COM

Subject: Re: query on Cockney



"Do you know of any good book (or ariticle or dictionary) giving

a 1-2 page definition/history of the Cockney dialect?"



Can anybody give me any info on this? Thanks in advance.



The Merriam-Webster New Book of Word Histories (ISBN 0-87779-603-3)

has a listing for "cockney" and gives just over a page of interesting

information, although of course it focuses on the word itself more

than on the dialect.



Bruce Gelder (bgelder[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]es.com)