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==Name== Cruttenden uses the term '''London Regional General British'''<ref>{{Harvcoltxt|Cruttenden|2014|pp=81β82}}</ref><ref name="phon">{{cite web |title=Phonetics at Oxford University |url=http://www.phon.ox.ac.uk/general-british |access-date=17 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150328225134/http://www.phon.ox.ac.uk/general-british |archive-date=28 March 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> in preference to the popular term "Estuary English". The names listed above may be abbreviated: * Estuary English β EE * London Regional General British β London RGB<ref name="crut82">{{Harvcoltxt|Cruttenden|2014|p=82}}</ref> Wells has used different names for an accent closer to Cockney ('''Popular London''') or closer to Received Pronunciation ('''London Regional Standard''' or '''South-Eastern Regional Standard''').<ref>{{Harvcoltxt|Wells|1982|pp=302β303}}</ref> Cruttenden uses the name '''Popular London''' to refer to Cockney pronunciation itself.<ref>{{Harvcoltxt|Cruttenden|2014|p=89}}</ref>
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