Language and Diversity- Dialectal variations

Question 1

MLE

Answer 1

-Origins- Hackney
-KERSWILL- believes it will replace Cockney in 30 years

Features- H-retention- e.g. house
-TH-stopping-‘ ting’-‘thing’

Question 2

CASE STUDY- COCKNEY RHYMING SLANG

Answer 2

• Dialectal variation in London
• criminlas used it e.g. ‘brown bread’ for ‘dead’
  -stopped being used, stopped being deictic