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Cockney and Queen's English have all but disappeared among young people – here's what's replaced them (theconversation.com)
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Cockney and received pronunciation (Queen’s English) were once spoken by people of all ages, but they are no longer commonly spoken among young people in the south-east of England.

In new research, colleagues and I recorded the voices of 193 people between the ages of 18 and 33 from across south-east England and London. We then built a computer algorithm which “listened” to how they spoke and grouped them by how similarly they pronounced vowels in different words.

We identified three main accents:standard southern British English, multicultural London English and estuary English.

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[–] SuperJetShoes@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yorkshire here. Get a train on the east coast mainline to Leeds (they're hourly) and increase your sample size to include Northern accents this improving the quality of your report from "being south of Watford".

[–] theinspectorst@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

How would travelling to Leeds help with a study of what accents are spoken in the south-east of England?

How would you react if a piece of research on the variety of accents spoken in Yorkshire included fieldwork from Wimbledon and Hemel Hempstead?