Estuary English Features of Estuary English

Estuary English

Features of Estuary English: • Diphthong Shift words like “paper , shape , train” are pronounced “piper , shipe , trine ” • Glottal stops “water >war'er” • Th-Fronting “Three > free”, ”other > ovver” • L-vocalisation “milk > miwk” • H-Dropping “here > ere”, ”hate > ate” • G-Dropping “swimming > swimmin” • Happ. Y-tensing using a sound more similar to the [i: ] than to the [I] at the end of words like happy, coffee, valley

Stress and intonation • The intonation in Estuary English is characterized by "frequent prominence being given to prepositions and auxiliary verbs which are not normally stressed in General R. P. Example: "Let us get TO the point. " • There also appears to be a narrower pitch of intonation patterns in Estuary English than in RP.

Vocabulary • Cheers is often used in place of thank you, but it’s also possible for it to mean good-bye. • Basically is used frequently in conversation. • An increased use of Americanisms can also be seen in EE : There you go being used in place of the more standard Here you are and There is acts as an invariable form of usage in both singular and plural contexts. • Sorry is often replaced with excuse me and engaged in the context of the telephone, has been replaced by the word busy.

Grammar Examples: EE - you were Cockney - you was

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