I just came across the word ‘mockney’ for the first time. Apparently it means, in short, fake cockney:
‘pronunciation of English by someone who pretends to speak like a cockney, in order to seem as if they are from a lower social class’
I like it. I don’t think we have an equivalent word in Dutch.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/mockney
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