Es·tu·ar·y English ( s ch -r  )n. 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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