Summary
REGIONAL accents, when I was a teenager were still pretty much a class clanger. Nice middle class grammar school girls like me spoke received English, and some of us - I am ashamed to say - had their birth accents drummed out of them by hideously bossy elocution teachers.
We were made to recite rhymes to train us to talk like what the posh people did.See the full content of this document
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It's the Way We Tell 'Em
I can still remember the one for poshening up your vowels - "Father's car is a Jaguar, and a very fast car it is." Even at the time it felt idiotic, but now of course it would be en...
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