Of course Ioan fitted a certain popular cliché and in a British film he would most likely have spoken Cockney English.
A case in point is that in Garnett's translation the lower class characters speak in Cockney English.
They had to argue about it at length in Yiddish and Cockney English.
"Get the fountain in there," he said, in thick Cockney English.
The English translation replaces this with a language that is a phonetic rendering of Cockney English.
Unfortunately I could never watch the whole show because his Cockney English was almost unintelligible.
He fin- ished in Cockney English with a triumphant smirk.
In the English books, they speak Cockney English, but it is written in such a way that it looks meaningless.
Willie was fluent in French, his accent far better than in the Cockney English he chose to maintain.
Her music was used as part of an exhibition at the British Library tracing the history of Cockney English.
