Cockney VW date?

Subject: RE: Cockney VW date?
From: sledge
Date: 27 Jul 01 - 08:38 AM

Probably German, after all they makes millions of VW's each year.

Cheers

Sledge

Subject: Cockney VW date?
From: pavane
Date: 27 Jul 01 - 07:49 AM

It is well known that in the Cockney dialect in former times, the letters V and W were interchanged. Thus William (and Dinah) became Villikens. Also in Dickens, we get 'werry' instead of 'very'. There are many old broadsides showing this feature, between 1806 and the 1860's - does anyone know the approximate date range in which these letters were interchanged and why? Was it German influence?