English Features which can be found in East Anglian English (especially in Norfolk) include: Yod-dropping after all consonants: beautiful may be pronounced , often represented as "bootiful" or "bewtiful", huge as , and so on. Absence of the long mid merger between Early Modern English (as in toe, moan, road, boat) and (as in tow, mown, rowed). The vowel of toe, moan, road, boat may be realised as , so that boat may sound to outsiders like boot. Glottal stop frequent for . The diphthong (as in price) realised as , sounding very much like the diphthong in Received Pronunciation choice. The vowel (as in lot) realised as an unrounded vowel , as in many forms of American English. Merger of the vowels of near and square (RP and ), making chair and cheer homophones. East Anglian accents are generally non-rhotic. There are differences between and even within areas of East Anglia: the Norwich accent has distinguishing aspects from the Norfolk dialect that surrounds itchiefly in the vowel sounds. The accents of Suffolk and Cambridgeshire are different from the Norfolk accent. 19th-century Essex, Kent, Sussex, and Surrey English The region largely south of London, including Surrey, Sussex, and once even Kent, used to speak with what today would be lumped under a South West England or "West Country" dialect. In all these counties plus Essex, front , front , and high vowels predominated in the 19th century. Modern Essex, Kent, and Sussex English is usually associated with non-rhotic Estuary English, mainly in urban areas receiving an influx of East London migrants since World War II. However, rhoticity used to characterize the traditional rural accents in Kent, Surrey, and Sussex, though it has long been a recessive feature. Still, it is possible that some Sussex and Kentish rhoticity lasted until as recently as the early 21st century in certain pockets. The vowel (as in ) is very occasionally used for the vowel, normally ; it has been reported as a minority variant in Kent and Essex. Certain features associated with rural East Anglian English were once common in this region as well: the rounding of the diphthong of (right as roight). In the 18th and 19th centuries, in Essex, Kent, and east Sussex, plus several other South East areas including London, Suffolk, and Norfolk, was pronounced as in pre-vocalic position: thus, village sounded like willage and venom like wenom. In the