Home Counties

English Noun p Home Counties en A <<geographic area>> consisting of the counties surrounding London, <<cc/England>>. en 2006 Peter Godwin When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa From Caro, the British colonel's wife, now ferrying around anti-tear gas solvent kits and bottled water, her toenails painted a riot of different colors, her posh Home Counties diction already absorbing the shortened vowels of our southern African dialect. References