Re: Of accents & dialects
| From: | And Rosta <and.rosta@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 14:38 |
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R A Brown, On 21/10/2008 10:32:
> Mark J. Reed wrote:
>> Yes, I do dissimilatory code switching. It throws people off...
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>> What I *meant* was that an RP speaker sounds to me like they have a
>> very strong accent.
>
> Yep - a very strong RP accent. I guess I'd be described as having a more
> or less RP accent (tho I'm sure purists detect some 'impurities' in
> mine :)
... such as raising of the THOUGHT vowel in closed syllables, characteristic of
demotic south eastern English English but not of RP. (Not that I wd ever
condone the labelling of regionalisms as impurities, except in casual jest.)
--And.
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