In addition to the above features, namely rhoticity, the traditional Sussex accent showed certain other features, like an extremely narrow PRICE vowel and th-stopping. Reduplicated plural forms were a grammatical feature of the Sussex dialect, particularly in words ending -st, such as ghostesses in place of the standard English ghosts. [28]

There is a key in the video as to how I explain the sounds - it's tricky working out how to annotate old accents sometimes! Plus, I give you some vocabulary that also featured in their dialect and,...

As we've received a lot of interest with our daily Sussex dialect posts, here is a wonderful video highlighting the authentic and unique accent of Sussex. This helps emphasise the pronunciation we denote for each dialect word.

Aug 15, 2011 · When I was at primary school in Stonegate forty years ago my parents said I had a Sussex accent, an accent I acquired from the farmers’ sons and daughters I schooled with. It’s ever more rare these says.

The march of education must sooner or later trample down and stamp out anything like distinctive provincial dialect in England; but when this result shall have been effected, much that is really valuable will be lost to our language, unless an effort is promptly made to collect and record words which, together with the ideas which first rendered...

There's a perception that there's only one accent in the South East, a type of cockney estuary English. In reality language experts have discovered that there's many variations on accent and...

The accent of the Home Counties area (the counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, Surrey, and Sussex) is closest to what people call Queen's English, also known as Received Pronunciation (R.P.) or Standard English.

Much of the distinctive vocabulary of the Sussex dialect has now died out, although a few words remain in common usage and some individuals still speak with the traditional Sussex accent. The Sussex dialect is a subset of the Southern English dialect group.

Sep 9, 2020 · There are a very few people whose speech retains a Sussex accent (the sound-system of Sussex). The place names around us are full of Sussex words: down (chalk hill), dean (down-land valley), bostal (steep, down-land footpath). A handful of genuine Sussex words may be used in some people’s speech.

Nov 1, 2024 · The Sussex accent, with its rich rural heritage, represents one of England's most distinctive yet endangered regional dialects. Stretching from the South Downs to the coastal towns of Brighton and Hastings, the traditional Sussex accent varies significantly between West and East Sussex, each area maintaining its own unique linguistic ...