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Regional accents 'still thriving' in UK | Regional accents in Britain are increasingly getting prevalent despite the progressively homogeneous nature of society, according to academic studies. According to forecasts, accents would disappear and merge
into a national way of speaking, albeit with some class and regional variations.
However, experts found that accents like Geordie, Scouse, Mancunian, and Brummie
are actually becoming more distinct. But, nuances between districts within the
big cities are fading. Outside the cities, the hundreds of accents that once distinguished
small towns and rural districts are gradually being subsumed into regional "super-accents".
Experts have identified eight to 10 of these likely to predominate within the
next 40 years-they include estuary English, the burr of the southwest and separate
accents in the West Midlands, Yorkshire and north and south Wales . And the resilience
of urban accents is most evident in northern England , i.e., in the south only
two cities - London and Bristol - have strong accents of their own. "People want
to protect their identity," the Telegraph quoted Dominic Watt, a lecturer in forensic
speech science at York University , as telling a newspaper. "You could be parachuted
into pretty much any British city and the shops look the same, people dress the
same and have similar pastimes and interests. What still makes these places separate
and distinct is the dialect and accent," he added. |
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