 Within the city of London, the Cockney accent can be indeed called the broadest form of the local accents in the city. Geographically, Cockney is confined to the area of London, since it is traditionally defined that a true speaker of Cockney has to be born within audible distance of the bells of Sir Marie LeBeau, Cheapside in London. Nevertheless, Cockney can also be found in other suburbs of the city. On a social linguistic level, Cockney represents the accent of the working class based in London and to some extent in an altered version also that of people living at the outskirts of London. On the whole, Cockney exhibits various distinctive characteristics such as incorporating a unique rhyming slang and distinctive phonological features. One striking phonological feature is the glottal stop, where glottaling of final or intervocalic consonants takes place. Let's listen. Ha! City Another property is word-initial, edge-dropping. Let's listen again. As Another significant characteristic is TH fronting, where the dental fricatives are substituted by labiodentals such as in words like think or brother. Think, brother. Further features include vowel lowering in word-final position, where for instance, final schwa is lowered to a low central position. Here is an example. Dinner Like in RP, a low level of rotissitis is also characteristic of Cockney.