XPost: alt.usage.english, alt.english.usage   
   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Sun, 28 Jul 2024 10:41:59 +0100, Janet  wrote:   
      
   >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.   
      
   And it was probably like that in Shaw's day, too.   
      
   But the Shavian alphabet would certainly make it easier to render   
   different accents in writing.   
      
      
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