... media, advertising as well as the medical and teaching professions in the south-east' and can be heard on the 'front and back benches of the House of Commons'1, showing that Estuary English is not at all limited to just the working class and quite often, the upper classes adopt features of the accent to 'fit in' or appeal more to the common man. Similarly, despite being most common in the South, analysts such as F. Schoenberger argue that Estuary English has actually 'spread northwards to Norwich and westwards to Cornwall'2 and is even detectable as far as Scotland. Inevitably, Estuary English is argued by many to 'be in a strong position to exert influence on the pronunciation of the future'3. The specific features of Estuary English have been debated about in great detail, and as there is a fine line linking Estuary English and cockney London speech, the exact differences between ...

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