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The Kentish dialect combines many features of other speech patterns, particularly those of East Anglia, the Southern Counties and London. Although there are audio examples available on the British Library website and BBC sources, its most distinctive features are in the lexicon rather than in pronunciation. As Estuary English is considered to be spreading in the area since at least 1984, some debate has emerged as to whether it is replacing local dialects in Kent, Essex and Sussex. ==Pronunciation== Modern Kentish dialect shares many features with other areas of south-east England (sometimes collectively called "Estuary English"). Other characteristic features are more localised. For instance, some parts of Kent, particularly in the north-west of the county, share many features with broader Cockney. Typical Kentish pronunciation features include the following: * Yod-coalescence, i.e., the use of the affricates and for the clusters and in words like ''dune'' and ''tune''. Thus, these words sound like June and choose day, respectively. * Diphthong shifts, e.g., the use of open or rounded for in words like ''pie'', or the use of for in words like ''take''. * A lengthened . This appears often before voiced consonants such as in ''ladder''. * ''H''-dropping, i.e., deleting in stressed words (e.g. for ''hat''). This is thought to have first started amongst Londoners some 300–400 years ago. * Vowel shortening in certain words, e.g. becomes in words like ''seen'' (but not ''scene'', which regularly uses the shifted diphthong ). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kentish dialect」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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