A Japanese dialect spoken in Tokyo. Generally considered a working-class dialect and is heavily associated with certain "downtown" wards of Tokyo located on the eastern side. This dialect is sometimes also called the Shitamachi dialect (Shitamachi-kotoba, lit. "Downtown Speech".)
The stereotypical phrase associated with this dialect is "beranmee" (corruption of "beranbou"), roughly meaning "bloody fool" or "frickin' idiot". Edoben is thus also sometimes called the beranmee-kuchou, or the "Beranmee Accent". Another common phrase is "teyandee", i.e. "The hell are ya sayin'?"
Other features of this dialect includes a lack of distinction between /shi/ and /hi/ (resulting in shichi sounding like "hichi"), as well as "fronting" of /ju/ to /ji/ (this results in juujutsu being pronounced like "jiu-jitsu"). The sounds of /ai ae ie oi/ also tends to be converted into a long /e/ sound, resulting in taihen and sugoi being pronounced as "teehen" and "sugee".
Characters of the "edokko" archetype (Rowdy Child of Edo/Tokyo) tend to speak with a distinctive Edoben accent.
Edoben is usually adapted into a colloquial-sounding English in translations, with greater emphasis on use of contractions and other colloquialisms. On Danbooru, heavier accents of Edoben are sometimes adapted into Cockney English.
