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Estuary English
Estuary Englishn. 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 n (Phonetics & Phonology) a variety of standard British English in which the pronunciation reflects various features characteristic of London and the Southeast of England [C20: from the area around the Thames estuary where it originated] |