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The Queen's English
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- Slang should go, but regional accents and habits are important. - 245 votes
- 69%
- No! - 72 votes
- 20%
- Yes, everyone should try and speak in a similar way. - 27 votes
- 8%
- Slang is fine, as long as it is spoken in received pronunciation! - 9 votes
- 3%
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Accents are fine but children should be encouraged to pronounce words properly.
I remember seeing a clip recently about some children in Essex who said the right words but didn't know how to pronounce them properly and therefore spelt them totally incorrectly. It was quite surprising what they were coming out with. (just a shame I can't remember now).
I remember seeing a clip recently about some children in Essex who said the right words but didn't know how to pronounce them properly and therefore spelt them totally incorrectly. It was quite surprising what they were coming out with. (just a shame I can't remember now).
16:23 Thu 08th Mar 2012
Can't vote on this. I don't believe everybody should speak in the same way, so regional accents should be acceptable and slang can be fine. Slang covers a wide area of our language. How do you define 'slang'? Slang more often than not ends up in dictionaries eventually.
Text speak other than on texts should be forced out though ;o)
Text speak other than on texts should be forced out though ;o)
Accents are fine but children should be encouraged to pronounce words properly.
I remember seeing a clip recently about some children in Essex who said the right words but didn't know how to pronounce them properly and therefore spelt them totally incorrectly. It was quite surprising what they were coming out with. (just a shame I can't remember now).
I remember seeing a clip recently about some children in Essex who said the right words but didn't know how to pronounce them properly and therefore spelt them totally incorrectly. It was quite surprising what they were coming out with. (just a shame I can't remember now).
Which accent would be treated as the proper way to speak? Undeniably southern counties Queens English. I must admit it is the most understandable, but how totally boring if everybody was taught to speak this way. When I was young, girls especially used to be sent to elecution lessons to be taught to speak properly.
People from southern England - and London in particular - are often unable to pronounce the ‘th’ at the beginning of words like ‘thought’ and they omit the ‘ts’ in words like ‘letter’. It isn’t laziness, or lack of education, or slang - it’s the result of their own particular regional accent.
Evian //I remember seeing a clip recently about some children in Essex who said the right words but didn't know how to pronounce them properly and therefore spelt them totally incorrectly.//
That doesn’t work at all. I say ‘glarse’ and ‘parse’ instead of ‘glass’ and ‘pass’ – and oddly enough, so does the Queen.
Evian //I remember seeing a clip recently about some children in Essex who said the right words but didn't know how to pronounce them properly and therefore spelt them totally incorrectly.//
That doesn’t work at all. I say ‘glarse’ and ‘parse’ instead of ‘glass’ and ‘pass’ – and oddly enough, so does the Queen.
slang reflects the continuous change of the language -if it wasn't for slang we would still be talking like we did in the middle ages -some slang sticks ,some goes out of fashion. Regional accents are great as they confuse foreigners 'joke' - I have a slight geordie accent. Living south of the Toon I'm classed as 'posh', living north of harrogate I'm common lol!
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