Re: What is the name of the Middle Class equivalent of Estuary English?
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- Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 16:09:11 +0100
On 5 Aug 2005 00:52:55 -0700, "Troy Steadman"
<troysteadman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>[It isn't "Received English" BTW. That is a distinct dialect heard all
>over Britain: the Queen speaks it, it is common in Belgravia,
>Knightsbridge, on country estates, at Lords, Henley, in Pall Mall and
>at the House of Lords].
A distinct dialect heard all over Britain? The only places you've
mentioned are in the south-east. It's not heard in, for example, Wet
Yorks, except from people who come from or were educated in the
south-east.
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