Quotes About Cockneys

Cockneys make good beggars. They are held in high esteem by the fraternity in America. Their resource, originality and invention, and a never-faltering tongue enable them to often attain their ends where others fail, and they succeed where the natives starve.

cockneys (which would make it one of the few instances in modern linguistics in which a manner of utterance traveled upward from the lower classes).