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indisgestion for indigestion; gownd for gown; scholard for scholar; nevvy for nephew; non-plush'd for non-plussed; refuge for refuse; quid for cud, " chewing the quid; "sarment for sermon; varmint for vermin; sloop for slope; spartacles for spectacles; spavin for spasms. I knew an old woman who was constantly suffering from "the windy spavin;" taters for potatoes; wunstfor once; wuts for oats, etc., etc."
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Modern Essex English is usually associated with non-rhotic Estuary English, mainly in urban areas receiving an influx of East London migrants since World War II. The Essex accent has an east–west variation with the county's west having Estuary English speech features and the county's east having the
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Acrost for across; agoo for ago; batcheldor for bachelor; brownchitis (or sometime brown titus) for bronchitis; chimley or chimbley for chimney; crowner for coroner; crowner's quest for coroner's inquest; curosity and curous for curiosity and curious ; death for deaf; disgest for digest, and
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Modern Kent, and Sussex English is usually associated with non-rhotic Estuary English, mainly in urban areas receiving an influx of East London migrants since World War II. However, rhoticity used to characterize the traditional rural accents in Kent, Surrey, and Sussex, though it has long been a
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Gower was first made aware of the dialect after reading a letter in a local newspaper. Following that, and after his own enquiries, he expressed a fear that improved transport and the spread of education would cause such local dialects to disappear and be forgotten despite the fact that, in his
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residents. Now spread throughout the South East region, Estuary English is the resulting mainstream accent that combines features of both Cockney and a more middle-class RP. Less affluent areas have variants of Estuary English that grade into southern rural England outside urban areas.
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may still be rhotic or variably rhotic today, though this feature is quickly becoming ever less frequent. In country areas and Southampton, the older rhotic accent can still be heard amongst some speakers, for example in the speech of
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The region largely south of London, including Surrey, Sussex, and once even Kent, used to speak with what today would be lumped under a South West England or "West Country" dialect. In all these counties, front
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Past participle takes more complex forms after common consonants "-ded," "-ted," e.g., attackted, drownded, "Such a country as this, where everything is either scorched up with the sun or drownded with the
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area a vowel at the end of a word is often followed by an intrusive dark l, . Hence the old joke about the three Bristolian sisters Evil, Idle, and Normal (written Eva, Ida, and Norma).
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words, "Old customs, old beliefs, old prejudices die hard in the soil of England". Gower described certain standard English words with nonstandard pronunciations in the Surrey dialect:
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The Old and Middle English prefix of "a-" is used generally before substantives, before participles and with adjectives placed after nouns, e.g., a-coming, a-going, a-plenty, a-many.
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compiled by Nils Norman Schiborr. Audio recordings of narrative texts with transcriptions time-aligned at the phone level, translations, and time-aligned morphological annotations.
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survive as traditional broad dialects in Southern England today, though they too are subject to Estuary English influence in recent decades and are consequently weakening.
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Commentators report widespread homogenisation in South East England in the 20th century (Kerswill & Williams 2000; Britain 2002). This involved a process of
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recessive feature. Still, it is possible that some Sussex and Kentish rhoticity lasted until as recently as the early 21st century in certain pockets.
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accents, now perceived as rural. It originally extended an even larger region, across much of South East England, including an area south of the "
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In the 18th and 19th centuries, in Essex, Kent, and east Sussex, plus several other South East areas including London, Suffolk, and Norfolk,
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In addition to the above features, namely rhoticity, the traditional Sussex accent showed certain other features, like an extremely narrow
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The pleonastic use of "-like" denoting "vaguely", e.g. comfortable-like, timid-like, dazed-like, "I have felt lonesome-like ever since."
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Features of working- or middle-class Estuary English, spoken in the counties all around London in the 21st century, include:
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There are differences between and even within areas of East Anglia: the Norwich accent has distinguishing aspects from the
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is pronounced darkly where it is present, too, which means that in Bristolian rendering, 'idea' and 'ideal' are homophones.
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They persist most strongly in areas that remain largely rural with a largely indigenous population, particularly the
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I saw the ghostesses, / Sitting on the postesses, / Eating of their toastesses, / And fighting with their fistesses.
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Britain, David; Cheshire, Jenny, eds. (2003). "Dialect levelling and geographical diffusion in British English".
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Double negatives in a sentence are common, "You don't know nothing", "The gent ain't going to give us nothing"
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A Sociophonological Analysis of Mersea Island English: An investigation of the diphthongs (aʊ), (aɪ) and (ɔɪ)
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itself (most famously including the East End). It is characterised by many phonological differences from RP:
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meaning "snail". Several nonstandard grammatical features exist, such as irregular plural forms like
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A Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect – a Collection of Provincialisms in use in the County of Sussex
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A Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect and Collection of Provincialisms in Use in the County of Sussex
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Cockney is the traditional accent of the working classes of the areas immediately surrounding the
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Superlatives (+est) were used in place of the word "most", e.g., "the impudentest man I ever see"
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or "Pompey" English, some of which may actually originate from Portsmouth rather than London.
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vowels predominated in the 19th century, all of which are also shared with rural traditional
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Modern Estuary dialect features were also reported in some traditional varieties, including
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in inner-city London and the careful upper-class standard accent of Southern England,
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forms were a grammatical feature of the Sussex dialect, particularly in words ending
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who spoke the local accent, principally Kentish but with strong London influences.
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Multicultural London English (abbreviated MLE), colloquially called Blockney, is a
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is realised as , as mentioned above. In Jamaican-London speech, glottalization of
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always remain voiceless, which is the main difference from West Country accents.
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that surrounds it – chiefly in the vowel sounds. The accent of
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South West England or "West Country" English is a family of similar strongly
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Some examples of the Norfolk accent (with dialectal words thrown in) at
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As well as rhoticity, here are common features of West County accents:
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A unique dialect existed as recently as the late 19th century in the
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of in the middle or end of a word with a glottal stop; for example
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versus a monophthongal realisation in closed syllables, for example
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may be pronounced , often represented as "bootiful" or "bewtiful",
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Red areas are where English dialects of the late 20th century were
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hot – a verb meaning to heat something up, "hot it over the fire"
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has a low-back onset, , or the lowered/unrounded from , or or
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that emerged in the late 20th century. It is spoken mainly by
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General characteristics of all major London accents include:
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As of the 21st century, a wide class of dialects labelled "
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sauce – vegetables, e.g. "green sauce", pronounced "soss"
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are on the modern-day border between Estuary English and
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can have an onset lower than RP but higher than Cockney:
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Sussex as She Wus Spoke: A Guide to the Sussex Dialect
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In traditional Southern rural accents, the voiceless
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messengers – small clouds (also called "water dogs")
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lowers and backs, different from both RP and Cockney
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baulky – is said of a person who tries to avoid you
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(2004). 1453:Phonological features included long-standing 1197:19th-century Kent, Sussex, and Surrey English 1146:has greater similarities to that of Norfolk. 903:, giving pronunciations like "Zummerzet" for 830:tend to be more prevalent in older speakers. 8: 1177:meaning "to beat up batter for pudding" and 1820:, page 61, Cambridge University Press, 1984 1743:. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Company KG. 269:(phonetically ) occurs only before vowels. 3399:Comparison of American and British English 3268: 3089: 2797: 2731: 2720: 2422: 2413: 2402: 2372: 2358: 2350: 1496:comb – the moss that grows on church bells 1469:bannick – a verb meaning to beat or thrash 2198:. Lewes: Farncombe & Co. p. vii. 2065:Benham, Charles Edwin (23 October 2017). 2018:Benham, Charles Edwin (23 October 2017). 79:Learn how and when to remove this message 2344:English (Southern England) DoReCo corpus 2225: 2223: 2221: 1616:uppards – towards London or in the north 1526:innardly – to talk innardly is to mumble 1466:bait – an afternoon meal about 4 pm 181: 1941: 1939: 1758: 1407:Syntax of the Surrey dialect included: 206:(RP), popular in the 20th century with 2192:The Kentish Dialect and Provincialisms 2116:from the original on 12 September 2020 1318:, was familiar with the mudflats near 198:between the extremes of working-class 2207: 2205: 1904:"Norfolk England Dialect Orthography" 1610:tidy – adjective meaning good or well 1589:shuckish – unsettled, showery weather 1571:quirk – a faint noise indicating fear 7: 3469:Non-native pronunciations of English 1484:beleft – the participle of "believe" 1237:) is very occasionally used for the 574:is monophthongized to , for example 113:. For the distinction between , 2106:"BBC - Kent - Voices 2005 - Voices" 1999:. Trübner & Company. pp. 5, 22. 1919:, written by Norfolk-born linguist 1447:"all along of" meaning "because of" 1122:East Anglian accents are generally 1740:A Handbook of Varieties of English 1161:was common in Essex. In addition, 899:respectively) are often voiced to 428:as Cockney, but still more than RP 292:(this can also be a monophthong: ) 25: 2233:, (1893), Oxford University Press 1656:in place of the standard English 1505:fail – a verb meaning to fall ill 1310:The pattern of speech in some of 512:) and replacement of with (the 1849:Jamaican pronunciation in London 1684: 1670: 1303:) was a common pronunciation of 1282: 736:Jamaican pronunciation in London 452:can take the more RP variant of 257: 31: 2067:"Essex ballads and other poems" 2020:"Essex ballads and other poems" 1996:A glossary of the Essex dialect 1556:nurt – a verb meaning to entice 1544:middlin – reasonable or average 1487:bettermost – upper-class people 1256:in pre-vocalic position: thus, 980:Features which can be found in 777:"Estuary-isms" can be found in 742:Berkshire and Hampshire English 730:are also heard from Jamaicans. 680:parts of working-class London. 642:of (dark L) to , for example, 299:in open syllables, for example 218:Outside of South East England, 105:International Phonetic Alphabet 3419:English-based creole languages 2273:: Farncombe & Co. p.  1547:mixen – a heap of dung or soil 1322:and created a comic character 1: 3459:List of English-based pidgins 2147:Kortmann & Schneider 2004 2135:Kortmann & Schneider 2004 2053:Kortmann & Schneider 2004 1993:Charnock, Richard S. (1880). 1834:Language in the British Isles 1818:Language in the British Isles 1802:Kortmann & Schneider 2004 1532:lief – rather, "I'd lief not" 1036:may be realised as , so that 695:is replaced by , for example 3454:Linguistic purism in English 2320:. Seaford: SB Publications. 2213:Dictionary of Surrey English 1426:"See" was used for saw (the 1154:The East Anglian feature of 1040:may sound to outsiders like 656:Multicultural London English 650:Multicultural London English 3500:English language in England 2555:London & Thames Estuary 2297:. Lewes: Farncombe & Co 2189:Parish, W.D.; Shaw (1888). 1725:Regional accents of English 1574:runagate – good for nothing 1565:picksome – pretty or dainty 1514:foundrous – boggy or marshy 1499:clung – moist or damp grass 1392:Surrey grammatical features 1368:, and in parts of northern 295:diphthongal realisation of 276:diphthongal realisation of 131:English in Southern England 51:. 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