, "South East England has a number of dialects spoken in the region that streaks the Thames and an estuary that flows into it." Labeled as Estuary English by John C. Wells, the dialect is mainly a standard language with accents from the South East region of the country. The dialect is spoken in Essex, Kent and London by the young generation with many people prescribing it to the working population. In the year 1993, a business person was cited that Estuary English is preferred to Received Pronunciation for the purposes of business.
The insistence of picking this dialect up as a means of fitting in with the common man earns the former a label that is referred to as Mockney. Received Pronunciation, a dialect that is otherwise thought of as unfriendly is spoken by youth from the upper class and the upper middle class in the South of England. One London Translation Service worker commented, "As for thee Estuary English term, some speakers use it in connotations that are judged as being too casual."
Estuary English was predicted as a better option for speech when David Rosewarne argued that it had found prominence with the public. It was therefore likely to replace Received Pronunciation from the early periods of the 1980s. Research shows that Estuary English is actually a construct that consists of Londons working class speech along with a few features spreading into the middle-class dialect.
Other accents in the South-Eastern region have also been influenced by the Estuary English and London Translation Services. The dialect is generally thought of as a working class medium of communication.