plausible?
Grant Barrett
gbarrett at AMERICANDIALECT.ORG
Wed Oct 6 13:39:44 UTC 1999
On Tuesday, October 05, 1999, Andrea Vine <avine at NETSCAPE.COM>
wrote:
>Interestingly enough, it looks like dialects in the media are
on the rise in
>Britain. It seems people in the BBC are increasingly retaining
their native
>dialects, or at least a standard version of their native
dialects, e.g.
>Scottish, Irish, and Indian. I have yet to hear Welsh, West
Country, Yorkshire,
>or Cockney, though, so I suspect there are limits.
Nice, isn't is? I think this has been going on for at least a
couple of years. There are even news readers with non-Empire
accents appearing.
--
Grant Barrett
World New York
http://www.worldnewyork.com/
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