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The King 's English and Cockney are no longer common dialects among Young People in The South East of England, according to a new study.

Researchers from the University of Essex studied the dialects of a group of 18 to 33-year-olds in the region.

They identified three voices, Estuary English , southern British English - and multicultural London English .

Project leader Dr Amanda Cole said the latter was " a really innovative and interesting accent".

" Multicultural London English is a relatively more recent accent, it is thought to be around since the 80s, it has a lot in common with the cockney and South Eastern dialects other accents, " She Said .

" But it also has linguistic features that have come from other languages and other dialects of English . "

Young People with a multicultural London English accent made up 25% of the 193 people who took part in the study, She Said .

People with this accent tend to say vowels in their words like " bate" and " boat" with The Tongue starting at a point higher up in The Mouth compared to people with The Standard southern British English , Dr Cole added.

This means they will sound like " beht" and " boht".

People with this accent tended to be Asian British or Black British from London and across The South -East England, She Said .

In recent years, Cockney and The King 's English were spoken by people of all ages, but now 49% of the participants spoke in a standard southern British English accent, which the study said was a modern, updated version of received pronunciation.

People with this accent tended to say words like " goose" with The Tongue further forward in The Mouth (sounding a bit more like " geese" ) than received pronunciation.

Researchers said this change even happened in The Accent of the late Queen Elizabeth Ii over her lifetime.

Around 26% of the participants spoke Estuary English , which had similarities with Cockney but was closer to received pronunciation.

Participants with this accent pronounced words like " house" like " hahs" but the study said it was not as extreme as Cockney.

Estuary English is spoken across The South -East, particularly in parts of Essex, and is similar to how TV personality Stacey Dooley , singers Olly Murs and Adele or The Repair Shop's Jay Blades talk.

The study said: " This occurs as a result of the increased movement of people resulting in greater contact between dialects, the growth of universal education and literacy, and people buying into the idea that there is a " correct" or " standard" way of speaking. "

Source of news: bbc.com