Posh or not?
You hear regional accents all the time now on radio and television and having an accent no longer means that that people think of you as working class. So if you speak with a lovely Irish lilt or a Brumie Brogue, how can other people tell if you're posh or not? Is what you say more important than the way you say it? Our Voices producer Judith Paskin has been doing a bit of research to find out
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The secret of slang
We've been discussing how the English language is developing. Do you feel that people have stopped speaking 'proper' English, and have lapsed into lazy ways of speech? Or is it simply that we're more relaxed about the way we communicate? If we took a peak at your personal diary, would we read a very formal account of your day, or would it be more like Briget Jones's? Our Voices producer Judith Paskin has been reading between the lines to find out ..... Listen to the audio
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Do you ever listen into a conversation between a group of teenagers and think, 'what on earth are they talking about?' It seems that young people today have a language of their own. But where does slang actually come from and has it always been around? Our Voices producer Judith Paskin joined a group of 17 year olds in Chipping Norton to see if she could discover the secret of youth speak
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