Estuary English is characterised by the following features:
* Non-rhoticity.
* Use of intrusive R.
* A broad A (ɑː
in words such as bath, grass, laugh, etc.
* T-glottalization: realizing non-initial, most commonly final, /t/ as a glottal stop instead of an alveolar stop, e.g. water (pronounced /wɔːʔə/).
* Yod-coalescence, i.e., the use of the affricates [dʒ] and [tʃ] instead of the clusters [dj] and [tj] in words like dune and Tuesday. Thus, these words sound like June and choose day, respectively.
* L-vocalisation, i.e., the use of [o], [ʊ], or [ɯ] where RP uses [ɫ] in the final positions or in a final consonant cluster.
* The wholly-holy split.
* Use of confrontational question tags. For example, "We're going later, aren't we?", "I said that, didn't I?"
* Non-rhoticity.
* Use of intrusive R.
* A broad A (ɑː
in words such as bath, grass, laugh, etc.* T-glottalization: realizing non-initial, most commonly final, /t/ as a glottal stop instead of an alveolar stop, e.g. water (pronounced /wɔːʔə/).
* Yod-coalescence, i.e., the use of the affricates [dʒ] and [tʃ] instead of the clusters [dj] and [tj] in words like dune and Tuesday. Thus, these words sound like June and choose day, respectively.
* L-vocalisation, i.e., the use of [o], [ʊ], or [ɯ] where RP uses [ɫ] in the final positions or in a final consonant cluster.
* The wholly-holy split.
* Use of confrontational question tags. For example, "We're going later, aren't we?", "I said that, didn't I?"