glottal stop in Cockney

Learner   Sat Feb 13, 2010 3:45 pm GMT
When was the origin of the usage of glottal stop of the sound t in Cockney dialect, I mean around which year or decade it started to exist?
Billy   Wed Feb 24, 2010 6:53 pm GMT
I've no idea when it originiated. The glottal stop is also used in other British accents, not just Cockney.
Little Aldeburghman   Wed Feb 24, 2010 7:14 pm GMT
The Cockney accent came out of the high pitched East Anglian farmer accent. It's heart is the nasal Suffolk accent, and it radiates unaltered north into neighbouring Norfolk, but mostly it radiated through Essex into East London etc. Suffolk nasal - Thames - Esturary - Cockney.

The similar sounding West Country accent is more deeper and more like the classic 'pirate sound' For Somerset think North American and Pirates, for Suffolk think Australia and Farmers.