The Wikipedia article on Estuary English has just been changed so that the first sentence starts "Estuary English or London Regional General British is an accent of English ..." and refers to Alan Cruttenden's latest revision of Gimson's Pronunciation of English. I have put a note on the talk page saying I don't think this term (LRGB) should be given equal status as a name for the accent in question. After all, the name Estuary English has been in use for a long time and is widely discussed, while LRGB is a recent creation by just one writer. I think it would be better if the name was removed from the lead paragraph and was introduced in the section called "Name" (which currently only shows abbreviations). The article on Received Pronunciation has a separate section about other names for RP. Perhaps this will have been implemented by the time you read this.
NOTE: The editor involved has now changed the EE article in line with my suggestion, which I am glad about. Incidentally, the editing software for this blog managed to lose a couple of paragraphs I added to the above on the Estuary English article in general, so I will come back to the subject at a later date.
NOTE: The editor involved has now changed the EE article in line with my suggestion, which I am glad about. Incidentally, the editing software for this blog managed to lose a couple of paragraphs I added to the above on the Estuary English article in general, so I will come back to the subject at a later date.
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