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  2. Social mobility in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Social mobility in the United Kingdom refers to the ability or inability of citizens of the UK to move from one socio-economic class to another. History [ edit ]

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  4. Survey of English Dialects - Wikipedia

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    Standardisation of the English language was expected with the post-war increase in social mobility and the spread of the mass media. The project originated in discussions between Professor Orton and Professor Eugen Dieth of the University of Zurich about the desirability of producing a linguistic atlas of England in 1946, and a questionnaire ...

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  6. English language in England - Wikipedia

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    Furthermore, the particularly close link in recent English society between speech, especially accents, and social class and values has made local dialect a hindrance to upward social mobility. [7] The three largest recognisable dialect groups in England are Southern English dialects, Midlands English dialects and Northern England English dialects.

  7. Accent (sociolinguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In sociolinguistics, an accent is a way of pronouncing a language that is distinctive to a country, area, social class, or individual. [1] An accent may be identified with the locality in which its speakers reside (a regional or geographical accent), the socioeconomic status of its speakers, their ethnicity (an ethnolect), their caste or social class (a social accent), or influence from their ...

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  9. Dialect levelling in Britain - Wikipedia

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    Many of the great works in English dialectology were prompted because of fears that the dialects would soon die out and of a desire to record the dialect in time. Joseph Wright began his English Dialect Dictionary by saying "It is quite evident from the letters daily received at the 'Workshop' that pure dialect speech is rapidly disappearing from our midst, and that in a few years it will be ...