http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/Aug 25th 2009 6:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/Aug 25th 2009 6:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/Aug 25th 2009 6:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/Aug 25th 2009 6:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/
Idiots.

]]>Aug 25th 2009 9:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/Aug 25th 2009 10:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/Aug 25th 2009 11:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/Why is it that in movies whenever someone needs an English accent they sound like they're from the West end of London?]]>Aug 25th 2009 5:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/Beats Maccy D's on a night oot.]]>Aug 25th 2009 6:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/Aug 25th 2009 6:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/Aug 25th 2009 6:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/Aug 25th 2009 6:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/Aug 25th 2009 6:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/Aug 25th 2009 7:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/Aug 25th 2009 8:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/
Royal Berkshire Hunt.

Berkeley does not have a hunt.

Berkeley is in California

There is no fox hunting in California ]]>Aug 25th 2009 4:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/We have never had fox hunting in California.]]>Aug 25th 2009 8:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/
'wot you lookin at....don dis me innit'

much more appropriate for 21st century london taaaaaaaaan]]>Aug 25th 2009 6:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/Aug 25th 2009 6:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/Aug 25th 2009 7:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/Aug 25th 2009 7:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/
Its not the 90s anymore.]]>Aug 25th 2009 9:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/
its not the....ooooo cant be arsed]]>Aug 25th 2009 10:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/Aug 25th 2009 10:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/
RESPECT!]]>Aug 25th 2009 11:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/Aug 25th 2009 3:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/Aug 25th 2009 6:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/Bubble means Greek]]>Aug 25th 2009 7:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/
Having a bubble

Bubble-Bath

Laugh

Having a laugh]]>Aug 25th 2009 7:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/
Bubble (bath) - Laugh
Turkish (bath) - Laugh

Bubble (and squeak) - Greek
Turkish (Delight) - Shite

I see why it died out.]]>Aug 25th 2009 9:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/Aug 25th 2009 6:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/
“Real Cockneys don’t have bank accounts or all that palava,” he said. “They put it under the mattress.”]]>Aug 25th 2009 6:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/
Haha, Half my family still speak like this.
The person who wrote this article is a bit of an idiot for not understanding it properly. It was never a criminal thing, just made to be a "criminals language" by Hollywood. Annoying.]]>Aug 25th 2009 6:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/Aug 25th 2009 7:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/Aug 25th 2009 6:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/Aug 25th 2009 7:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/Aug 25th 2009 8:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/Aug 25th 2009 7:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/Aug 25th 2009 7:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/Aug 25th 2009 8:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/Aug 25th 2009 9:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/Aug 25th 2009 9:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/Aug 25th 2009 9:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/Aug 25th 2009 9:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/Aug 25th 2009 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/Aug 25th 2009 3:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/
On a side note, that article as states the following:

"Bank Machine, which runs 2,500 ATMs across the country, was aiming to amuse, but it has grander ambitions too. It hopes to follow the Cockney cash machines with Brummie, Geordie, Scouse and Scots ATMs. It hopes that ATMs will serve to keep these dialects alive in Britain."

Keep them alive? Why would you want to keep them alive? Scouse is the dialect equivalent of someone drawing their fingernails down a blackboard and the rest, while they can sound nice, just serve as a means of preventing non-locals from understanding what is being said (i.e. might as well be a separate language like Cornish). Since I hate acronyms and abbreviations with a fiery passion I more or less feel the same way about regional dialects when they prevent communication.]]>Aug 25th 2009 7:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/
So everyone has to talk in BBC English from now on?

Who are you? Oswald Moseley?]]>Aug 25th 2009 7:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/http://www.bernhardt.org.uk/jokes/keyb-scouser.jpg]]>Aug 25th 2009 7:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/uk-atms-use-cockney-slang-we-dont-adam-n-eve-it/
I have absolutely nothing against a "regional twang" and, as I said, some regional accents can sound very nice (my wife, for example, comes from the Durham area). However, there is a difference between a regional accent and a regional dialect and there is no place for the later in the modern world. Anything that prevents communication is "a bad thing". BBC English has a lot to be said for it since it can be understood by everyone.

My exception to the above is Scouse which is both an accent and dialect that is just horrible.]]>Aug 25th 2009 8:06AM