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Baths and becks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2005

ANTHEA FRASER GUPTA
ANTHEA FRASER GUPTA
Affiliation:
Senior lecturer in Modern English Language in the School of English at the University of Leeds.
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Abstract

A report on two prominent dialectal variables in England. Using rather informally collected data, The author looks here at two well-known variables in the English of England: first, whether there is a short or long vowel in words such as grass and bath; second, what regional words people know for streams. The treatment of these variables is consistent over time, and seems to have little to do with social status or carefulness of speech.

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Original Article
Information
English Today , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , January 2005 , pp. 21 - 27
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© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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