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Dunstan Times, Issue 3334, 16 August 1926, Page 8

Cockney promiiiciation. which is said to have invaded Atayfair. has had its ardent admirers and supporters. Some jtCars ago, Mr Mackenzie Maeßnule ( ii HI shed a little book, in which be songld lo prove that the dialect of the .1 <o-iion streets is a. perfeely legitimate child ol the “old Kentish tongue lo which we owe our earliest written i I era I ore.” "Tliet” for “ilia iis good Ivenli'-h, lie urged, and was so spelled in Kent in htm A.D., while "'•enk ‘ for ••bank.” "dily” for “dab ” "teli” for “call.” and so forth, are mereK reprodneiions of Kentish talk, ■'•meJi a phrase as "giahisnide” would have parsed as the purest of highbrow -l 'ceeli 11 DO years ago.