This is the last of three articles in the Cheshire's collection of articles, English Around the World.
Some interesting information:
- a difference between East African English and West African English is the pronunciation of the u in but (Schmied does not specify the pronunciation of each).
- vowels differ from RP vowels much more than consonants (which is true of the difference between most dialects).
- there are fewer vowels in Kenyan English than RP.
- there are differences in East African English depending on the speakers' L1.
- there is a tendency to say words as they are spelled. So, few letters of the written word are left unpronounced (calf and half) even in contractions like let’s (p. 428).
- there is some resistence to RP because of covert prestige among East Africans.
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