Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Estuary English is an English accent associated with the south east, especially the area along the Thames river and estuary. Phonetician John C. Wells proposed a definition of Estuary English as \"Standard English spoken with the accent of the south-east of England\", although he criticised the notion that the spread of language from London to the south-east was anything new. The name comes from the area around the Thames, particularly its Estuary. Estuary English can be heard from some people in London, north Surrey, north Kent, south Hertfordshire and the majority of Essex. Estuary English shares many features with Cockney, and there is some debate among linguists as to where Cockney speech ends and Estuary English begins.The variety first came to public prominence in an article by David Rosewarne in the Times Educational Supplement in October 1984. Rosewarne argued that it may eventually replace Received Pronunciation in the south-east. Studies have indicated that Estuary English is not a single coherent form of English; rather, it consists of some (but not all) phonetic features of working-class London speech spreading at various rates socially into middle-class speech and geographically into other accents of south-eastern England."@en }
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- Estuary_English abstract "Estuary English is an English accent associated with the south east, especially the area along the Thames river and estuary. Phonetician John C. Wells proposed a definition of Estuary English as \"Standard English spoken with the accent of the south-east of England\", although he criticised the notion that the spread of language from London to the south-east was anything new. The name comes from the area around the Thames, particularly its Estuary. Estuary English can be heard from some people in London, north Surrey, north Kent, south Hertfordshire and the majority of Essex. Estuary English shares many features with Cockney, and there is some debate among linguists as to where Cockney speech ends and Estuary English begins.The variety first came to public prominence in an article by David Rosewarne in the Times Educational Supplement in October 1984. Rosewarne argued that it may eventually replace Received Pronunciation in the south-east. Studies have indicated that Estuary English is not a single coherent form of English; rather, it consists of some (but not all) phonetic features of working-class London speech spreading at various rates socially into middle-class speech and geographically into other accents of south-eastern England.".