 The sociolinguist Peter Trudgill has written that the term "Estuary English" is inappropriate because "it suggests that we are talking about a new variety, which we are not; and because it suggests that it is a variety of English confined to the banks of the Thames estuary, which it is not.The label actually refers to the lower middle-class accents, as opposed to working-class accents, of the Home Counties Modern Dialect area".Peter Roach comments, "In reality there is no such accent and the term should be used with care.