Browsing Linguistics by Subject "Production"
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How ‘U’ are ‘U’ words?: Exploring variation in the usage and perception of class-based lexical shibboleths in British English
That U (upper-class) speakers and non-U (non-upper class) speakers are identifiable through the use of vocabulary is something of an axiom in England. These claims are repeated in books, magazine and newspaper articles, ...