Deconstructing Cockney

Sentence 2 of 5 cockney-speech set

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oi lef ðem-ə næu tə meik ʃoo ðe‛m pæ‛n·zə·ʃreks get fi‛niʃ

This is how what the man said can be written in phonetic text (see list of the sounds here).

Notes:

oi = "I", the cockney equivalent of A-I Diphthong.
lef = "left", no final T Sound.
ðem-ə = "them a", the final M Sound of "them" forms a syllable with "a".
næu = "note", the Cockney O is used rather than the middle-class O-U Diphthong. The final T Sound is not said to avoid a hiatus with the T Sound beginning the next word.
tə meik ʃoo = "to make sure", mainstream speech, unstressed "to".
ðe‛m pæ‛n·zə·ʃreks = "them Panzershreks", grammaticaly, it should be "those" not "them".
get fi‛niʃ = "get finished", final T Sound not said.
A "Panzershrek" is a German Second World War anti-tank rocket launching system similar to the American bazooka.

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