Londoner

A Londoner is someone who inhabits or originates from London. Although the term Londoner is generally accepted as covering all people from Greater London, it is sometimes used to mean more narrowly a 'Cockney', and tradition has it that true Cockneys are only those who are born within the sound of Bow Bells (i.e., the peal of the church bells of the parish church at St Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside, London).

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Cockneys have a very distinctive accent, quite different from the general accent of South-Eastern England. Londoners speak with a wide variety of accents from Cockney through to Received Pronunciation, via Estuary English, as well as those of the many ethnic groups there. However younger members of ethnic minorities often acquire an accent very close to one of the mainstream accents.

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Residents and natives of the city of London, Ontario, Canada are also referred Londoners.

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The Londoner is a monthly newsletter from the Mayor of London delivered free to all households in Greater London.

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Greater London: Greater London is the top level administrative subdivision covering London, England. It is one of the nine regions of England. The administrative area of Greater London covers the large conurbation which comprises the City of London, the City of Westminster and 31 other London boroughs, and encompas...

Cockney: A Cockney, in the loosest sense of the word, is a working-class inhabitant of the East End of London. But according to tradition, the strict definition is limited to those born within earshot (generally taken to be three miles) of the Bow bells, in other words the bells of St Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside....

St Mary-le-Bow: St Mary-le-Bow is a historic church in the City of London, off Cheapside....