| has gloss | eng: The Essex dialect is rapidly disappearing variation of East Anglian English and is now almost wholly confined to the north and the east of Essex. It shares vast similarities with both Suffolk and Norfolk dialects, with its own parculiarities. With rapid urbanisation in the 20th century as well as the impact of the London overspill onto the county, Estuary English has overwhelmed parts and the usage of the dialect is now normally confined to older generations and the dialect itself stands in an extremely vulnerable state. Many of the unique patterns of speech, as well as vocabulary were recorded in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries |
