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For example
eighty, they say ei'ee
seventeen, "sevn' een"
better "beh 'er"

And who pronounces final L's like a W
Will = "Wiw"
????

2007-07-02 04:39:54 · 7 answers · asked by topink 6 in Society & Culture Languages

7 answers

Cockney. The "t" in the middle is replaced by a glottal stop. And the "l" is pronounced "w" too.
I had a colleague who talked like that who referred to the pad used for moistening envelopes as the "le'er we'er". Except that she didn't pronounce the final "r" either.
http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~lsp/CockneyEnglish.html

2007-07-02 04:45:33 · answer #1 · answered by Doethineb 7 · 2 0

Definitely the Cockney accent found in London and the greater area.

2007-07-02 14:08:35 · answer #2 · answered by j12 6 · 0 0

General Scottish accent, Glaswegian in particular have the "glottal stop" - the dropping of t's in the middle of words.

Cockney accent produce l's like w's at the end of words, and also have the glottal stop.

2007-07-02 11:47:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Dropping 't's and 'w's in common in east london and in essex and kent. Traditionally (and stereotypically) this is cockney, but you would hear people talking like this in london, particularly east london, essex and kent.

2007-07-02 11:49:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

nowadays it's pretty wide spread, it happens in southwest accents/scottish/liverpudlian....and more.

but you're probably thinking of estuary english? (cockney)

2007-07-02 12:59:15 · answer #5 · answered by GreenSheep 3 · 0 0

cockney among others... the T is however pronounced, as a "glotal stop"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glotal_Stop
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockney

2007-07-02 12:37:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

i just loooove the way they talk maan its wonderful

2007-07-02 11:43:30 · answer #7 · answered by Donets'k 5 · 0 0

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