> Do people really speak Kentish in most of Kent? Or is it a mix of Modern Estuary, Yes, ish For example Bermondsey(a former borough in southwark, london) is

> Do people really speak Kentish in most of Kent? Or is it a mix of Modern Estuary, Yes, ish For example Bermondsey(a former borough in southwark, london) is a weird mix of kent and cockney, but it is still, just about distinct. if you move more into kent, I sounds get longer. from I to Aye, to Aye-eh In the 80s-2000s half of central london moved to the suburbs, taking the accent with them. However the south london accent still exists in younguns, depending on parents of course. If you're second generation, and depending on which school you go to, you might get a hybrid accent. (my daughter got a proper bermondsey accent, but I suspect now she'd get, posher accent.) but, those accents are well away from these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S8JR4eJAXA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S8JR4eJAXA which sounds more related to broads norfolk when I was growing up. (but 1950s broads was different to 80s) I think the biggest issue is trying to pin down the hard accent changes vs the gradual. For example somewhere in Lincolnshire it goes from rural burble to hard yorkshire-eqse stops. I suspect its something to do with the fens.