Editing Cockney (section)

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Certain features of Cockney – [[Th-fronting|''Th''-fronting]], [[L-vocalisation|''L''-vocalisation]], [[T-glottalisation|''T''-glottalisation]], and the fronting of the <small>GOAT</small> and <small>GOOSE</small> vowels – have spread across the south-east of England and, to a lesser extent, to other areas of Britain.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/przed.pdf|title=Joanna Przedlacka, 2002. Estuary English? Frankfurt: Peter Lang|access-date=21 September 2013|archive-date=20 September 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120920115600/http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/przed.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> However, [[Clive Upton]] has noted that these features have occurred independently in some other dialects, such as TH-fronting in Yorkshire and L-vocalisation in parts of Scotland.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Upton |first1=Clive|editor1-first=Lynda |editor1-last=Mugglestone |title=The Oxford History of English|year=2012|publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford|page=395 |chapter=Modern Regional English in the British Isles}}</ref>

The term [[Estuary English]] has been used to describe London pronunciations slightly closer to RP than Cockney. The variety first came to public prominence in an article by David Rosewarne in the ''[[Times Educational Supplement]]'' in October 1984.<ref name=rosewarne>{{Cite web |url=http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/estuary/rosew.htm |title=Rosewarne, David (1984). "Estuary English". Times Educational Supplement, 19 (October 1984) |publisher=Phon.ucl.ac.uk |date=1999-05-21 |access-date=2010-08-16 |archive-date=7 March 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050307214016/http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/estuary/rosew.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> Rosewarne argued that it may eventually replace [[Received Pronunciation]] in the south-east. The phonetician [[John C. Wells]] collected media references to Estuary English on [http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/estuary/ a website]. Writing in April 2013, Wells argued that research by Joanna Przedlacka "demolished the claim that EE was a single entity sweeping the southeast. Rather, we have various sound changes emanating from working-class London speech, each spreading independently".<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://phonetic-blog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/estuariality.html |title=estuariality |last1=Wells |first1=John |date=17 April 2013 |access-date=1 June 2014 |archive-date=4 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904040650/http://phonetic-blog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/estuariality.html |url-status=live }}</ref>