
Episode 141: The Great Vowel Shift (Part 1)
The History of English Podcast
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English Accents and Dialects by Arthur Hughes, Peter Trudgill and Domic Watt
Artrie hepburn, who played eliza dolittle, didn't actually speak with a cockney accent. She just used one for the part. So let me play a sample from actual native speaker to get a sense for this sound. This is a clip from a dialect collection featured in the book english accents and dialects by arthur hughes, peter trudgill and dominic watt. You should be able to hear words like lay pape anyway, and day pronounce more like li pipe.
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