[Wikipedia-l] The value of Pronunciation

[James D. Forrester]

On Tuesday, March 22, 2005 5:00 PM, David Gerard <fun at thingy.apana.org.au>
wrote:

> This could be nightmarish in English - accents are widely variant and
> in Britain are used as markers of social status to a ridiculous
> degree. This is of course highly politicised. I confidently predict
> ten or more sound files per word.

Yes, but only /mine/ will be correct. ;-)

Actually, cataloguing them as "RP", "RRP", "Brummie", "Ilkely", &c. would
probably be beneficial for our article on said accents.

Swings and roundabouts. :-)

Yours,
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