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   From: kehoea@parhasard.net   
      
    Ar an t-ochtú lá is fiche de mí Iúil, scríobh Janet:   
      
    > In article ,   
    > hayesstw@telkomsa.net says...   
    >   
    > > [...] and would all schools using English as a medium of instruction force   
    > > all pupils to speak like that?   
    >   
    >   In Britain, well within my lifetime, class accent   
    > mattered so much that in the 1950's many schools actively   
    > discouraged regional accents and promoted RP. In my   
    > childhood in north England, school teachers constantly   
    > corrected local accents. Out of school, many parents of my   
    > generation were paying for their child's private   
    > "elocution " lessons.   
      
   Jeremy Clarkson has much more of a nothern accent in his TV work today than he   
   did in the 1980s, he clearly felt it was something to be suppressed then and   
   not now.   
      
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   How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’   
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