Talk:Kentish dialect

Geographical Area
Could some one define the geographical area to which this pertains/ or pertained, as if one is being picky Kentish refers only to the area west of the Medway- See Men of Kent/Kentish Man debate.

Replacement of /th/ with /d/?
I have resided in East Kent since 1978 and, when speaking informally, people with a Kentish accent (myself included) pronounce the /th/ in father as /v/, not /d/. SP1R1TM4N (talk) 00:15, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

POV-Strong Warning
It is difficult to find any truth, any where in the article. We have the East Kent/West Kent division that is not covered. I am aware that in MaidSTONE the accent was different from in industrial north Kent where we would call the town MEIdastn. 'n Ch' 'm the gl'l sto' reigns supreme.(In Chatham the glottal stop reigns supreme) The interchange of workers from the other big shipbulding towns had caused a very rich sub-accent to develop. My kids went to Medway schools and I taught in schools in Maidstone, Bromley, Greenwich and along the North Kent strip, I haven't heard any of the supposed dialect phrases. Linguistics is not my forté- and I wouldn't know where to start on the corrections needed- perhaps deletion is the solution.--ClemRutter (talk) 09:54, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

Glottal stops
It's quite obvious that areas near London and the River Medway are glottal stop territory, as is much of London. Macdonald-ross (talk) 17:05, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

Traditional dialect vs Estuary
You list the old dialect words but list the estuary pronounciation which one do you want because they're not the same thing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DustyRedSkies (talk • contribs) 17:31, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

Australian accent
Can someone add in links to old Kentish accents - Gravesend and Thanet, and their links to the modern Australian accent. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.152.7.91 (talk) 13:47, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

Parent of Australian
The Kentish Thanet and Medway dialect is the main parent of modern Australian.

Can someone expand on this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.240.58.228 (talk) 16:01, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

Merger with English language in southern England
This article was previously (and unilaterally) merged into English language in southern England by a single user who appears not to have followed WP:PM. Whilst this article clearly has issues which need addressing, and whilst there may be an argument to be made for merging it into another article, such a merger should only happen after a merger has been proposed, flagged on the article itself, and then discussed until consensus has been reached.

A potential source for cleaning up the page might be: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110577549/html Antonine (talk) 22:53, 30 September 2023 (UTC)