Monday 6 February 2017

Accent and Dialect

https://inews.co.uk/essentials/news/uk/regional-accents-losing-battle-standard-english/ comparing the accent of words in the 1950's and 2016.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/05/26/revealed-how-london-accents-have-killed-off-local-dialects-acros/ how accents from London have eliminated the way other places in England say things comparison of 1950 and 2016

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/im-professor-working-class-accent-get-over-it maths lecturer wasn't taken seriously because he didn't speak in RP and had a working class background.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/may/23/northern-accent-working-class-middle-class-northerner-barm-cake-john-lewis

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