Londoner

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[edit] What is a Londoner?

A Londoner refers to a person born and raised in London.

In this context, London is traditionally defined as the London postal code areas E, EC, N, NW, SE, SW, W, WC. However, with increasing immigration and outward growth of the metropolitan area, the term Londoner is now more commonly defined as any inhabitant of Greater London, regardless of origin.

Note: residents of Greater London boroughs (such as Harrow and Kingston) often identify themselves as coming from those formerly separate towns, and hence list their home county as Middlesex and Surrey, respectively.

Inner Londoners, especially those of elder generations, barely consider people from such towns as Londoners, if at all.

[edit] Londoner or Cockney?

Although the name of Londoner is generally accepted as covering people from Greater London in general, it is sometimes used to mean, more narrowly, a 'Cockney'. However, whilst all Cockneys are Londoners, not all Londoners are Cockneys -- as true Cockneys only include those 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).

[edit] Other popular uses of the term Londoner

• The Londoner, a monthly news sheet from the Mayor of London, England, delivered to all households in Greater London.

• The Londoner's Diary, the daily diary section of the London (England) Evening Standard, covering social events in the capital.

• The Londoner, a community paper in London, Ontario, Canada.

• The Londoner, a well-known pub in the Sukhumvit area of Bangkok (full name: The Londoner Brew Pub).