The dialects in the South of England: phonology

From a dialectological point of view, the South of England falls into three main dialect areas: the Southeast, centred on the Home Counties area; the Southwest of England, which covers the area known as the “West Country”; and East Anglia, which comprises Norfolk and Suffolk, together with adjacent parts of Essex and Cambridgeshire. This article will focus on two of these three areas: the Southeast and the Southwest.