Rounding of Onset of and Raising of Onset of In the older true Cockney accents which is what this article seems to be about not only is backed but the onset is also rounded to according to Wells 1982b 308 310 Wells calls a Popular London variant He defines Popular London as the accent of suburban working class speakers So according to Wells the true Cockney variant is Because this realization starts to encroach on s space according to Wells the onset of is raised to in Cockney