Cockney: References & Edit History

The best books for further reading about Cockney are Daniel Smith, The Language of London: Cockney Rhyming Slang (2011); Jonathon Green, Green’s Dictionary of Slang, 3 vol. (2010); and John Camden Hotten, A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words: Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London, the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the Houses of Parliament, the Dens of St. Giles, and the Palaces of St. James (1859). Eric Partridge, A Dictionary of Historical Slang (1972)—an abridged version of A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, 5th ed., 2 vol. (1961), with many subsequent editions and versions—is also invaluable.