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Bad language.(radio programs on laguage)
Publication: Spectator Publication Date: 27-AUG-05 Author: Vestey, Michael
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On the face of it, an exercise to record voices across the country might be considered worthwhile, if only to see how dialects and accents change and how they differ from each other. The results are appearing across the BBC's entire national and local output this week in special programmes, as part of the Voices project. The survey has been conducted by BBC journalists in conjunction with the School of English at Leeds University. Of course, we already know the variety of accents that exists and we're also aware that certain dialects have died out, Manx and Cornish in particular, and it will certainly be of interest to linguists to know how many different ways there are to...
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