Estuary English

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Es·tu·ar·y English (

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An accent used by many speakers of various social classes in southeastern England, characterized by a mixture of features drawn from middle-class and working-class speech.

[After the estuary of the Thames.]

estuary English

adj & n

(Linguistics / Phonetics & Phonology) a variety of standard British English in which the pronunciation reflects various features characteristic of London and the Southeast of England

[from the area around the Thames estuary where it originated]

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