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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun 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.
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- noun UK A
variety of Englishaccent , spreading out fromLondon into the area of theThames estuary, containingfeatures ofreceived pronunciation ,Cockney and otherregional accents.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After the estuary of the Thames.]
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