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Originally Posted by HarryT
No, that's the way that working-class Cockneys spoke (and, to a large extent, still do today), reversing "W" and "V" and dropping a lot of final sounds from words.
It was a very, very skilled "lower-class" job, and Mr Weller, in the book, regards himself as being among the "aristocracy" of working-class people. He would have been one of the extremely few people at the time who travelled widely; most people never went more than a few miles from where they were born in their whole lives.
Absolutely. Exactly the same happened in England. In Dickens's early books, people travel around by stagecoach, but in his later books they use trains.
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Thanks for the English lesson.