Help with Your British Accents: Estuary English (Southeast British)

Estuary is an accent derived from London English which has achieved a statusslightly similar to “General American”  in the US. Features of the accent can be heard around Southeast England, East Anglia, and perhaps further afield.  It is arguably creeping into the Midlands and North.
Features:
  • Similar to Cockney, but in general Estuary speakers do not front thwords or raise the vowel in trap. There are few hard-and-fast rules, however.
  • Glottal stoppingof ‘t’ and l-vocalization (see above) are markers of this accent, but there is some debate about their frequency.
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