"What is 'Estuary English' - anyone know?"
As I understand it, it's a recently developed accent which has evolved in the south east to replace the disappearing regional accents.
It appears to emanate from regular media exposure and is, in my opinion, evolving unpleasantly by replacing word endings with glottal stops.
NOT POSH AND NOT COCKNEY
If anybody hears of a memorial service to commemorate the death of the letter T in our language, I would very much appreciate if they would pass on the details
Was highly amused to hear a communications system - Broadband - turned into something the Highland Scots disapproved of - "braw ban" - but it wears very thin when repeated half a dozen times on the same television advert - ugly, ugly, ugly!!
Jim arroll