Cockney and Queen's English have all but disappeared among young people – here's what's replaced them
Cockney and Queen's English have all but disappeared among young people – here's what's replaced them
https://theconversation.com/cockney-and-queens-english-have-all-but-disappeared-among-young-people-heres-whats-replaced-them-215478
Accents are constantly changing.
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.