Trudgill on the Beatles

[AAllan at AOL.COM]

Beverly Flanigan wrote:

>Peter Trudgill has an article showing how the
>Beatles actually tried to Americanize their English in the early days, to
>imitate their models in rock and blues music.

She has kindly provided the citation:

>it's in his collection _On Dialect: Social and Geographical
Perspectives_ (New York Univ. Press, 1983).  It's a great article and even
includes Bob Dylan's fakey mountain speech!  The article is called "Acts of
conflicting identity: The sociolinguistics of British pop-song
pronunciation."<

- Allan Metcalf