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</p><font color="#000000"><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><br></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt">From: <span name="Roger Thijs" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Roger Thijs</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;white-space:nowrap"> </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;white-space:nowrap"><<a href="mailto:rogerthijs@yahoo.com" target="_blank">rogerthijs@yahoo.com</a>></span></div>

</font></font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size:12.727272033691406px"><font color="#000000"><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt">Subject: <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;white-space:nowrap">LL-L Language variation</span><br>

<br></div></font></font><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><div style="min-height:0px;padding:0px 15px 0px 0px;overflow:hidden"><div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif">

<div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:16.363636016845703px"><div>Social pressure squeezes speakers of regional variants in a corner, take this guy (who is a contestor in the UK X Factor competition) who was invited to sing the "Flower of Scotland" for the soccer game Scotland USA <span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">this Friday</span></span> evening:<br>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y90Rhbfg5PM" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y90Rhbfg5PM</a></div><div>He got a lot of negative comments, not only on severa blogs on the web, but even on the BBC:<br>

<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/24965364" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/24965364</a><br>** quote: "Some guy called Nicholas McDonald is belting out Flower of Scotland. Apparently he is an X Factor contestant. He's got that Glasgow pub warble in his vocals, but at least we could hear him, although that might be because of the lack of fans at Hampden!" endquote **<br>

"<em>That Glasgow pub warble in his vocals</em>" is apparently irritating.</div><div>So there is a quite strong social pressure to conform to the use of standard language and pronounciation.</div><div>Regards,<br>

Roger</div><div><br></div><div>A couple of performancies of this guy for x-factor:<br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C44KsgfCjY" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C44KsgfCjY</a><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R7SDW5X3R8" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R7SDW5X3R8</a></div>

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