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1. Accents &
Dialects
Studying UK
Dialects, Actors,
and Play
PLAY:
MY FAIR LADY
MOTION PICTURE
MUSICAL (1964)
Pygmalion (1913) by George Bernard Shaw 1
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2. Accents & Dialects
COCKNEY
DIALECT
Some Dialect Rules
Rhyming Slang
Use of Ain’t, Me/My,
Double Negatives
Consonants
Glottal Stop
• Drop H
• Drop J
• Drop T and D (end words)
• Drop R (end words)
Vowels
Diphthongs (closing)
• /a/ with ah
• /i/ is /ei or /ai/
• /ai/ is /ae/
• -er is /ə / and /ɐ /
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3. Accents & Dialects
Henry Higgins
Simple
phonetics.
The Science
of Speech.
You see this creature with her curb-stone
English; the English that will keep her in
the gutter to the ends of her days? Well,
sir, in six months I could pass her off as a
duchess at the Embassy Ball.
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4. Accents & Dialects
Henry Higgins
A woman who utters
such depressing and
disgusting noises has
no right to be
anywhere – no right to
live. Remember that
you are a human being
with a soul and the
divine gift of articulate
speech.
DIALECT:
RP - POSH
*QUEENS ENGLISH
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5. Accents & Dialects
I ain’t done nothin’
wrong by speakin’ to
the gentleman. I’ve a
right to sell flowers if I
keep off the
kerb.
DIALECT: COCKNEY ELIZA DOOLITTLE
Th-fronting: /θ/ “th” sound becomes ”f” as
in /nəfin/
T-glottalization: /t/ and /k/ and /p/
“speakin’” might become /spe’in/ where the
/k/ and ending ing is dropped
“They” or “the” becomes /dæɪ/
“ain’t” becomes /æɪn/
Alveolar stops: /t/ and /d/ are often omitted
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6. Accents & Dialects
The rain in Spain stays
mainly on the plain. But
in Hartford, Hereford and
Hampshire hurricanes
hardly ever happen.
DIALECT: COCKNEY ELIZA DOOLITTLE
Vowel Diphthongs
[æɪ]
Cockney
Rain /Spain / Main / plain
/ræɪn/, /spæɪn/, /mæɪn/ , /plæɪn/
Hartford / Hereford /Hampshire
/artvord /, /erevord/, / ampshir/
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7. Accents & Dialects
DIALECT: RP
(Received Pronunciation)
ELIZA DOOLITTLE
I should never have
known how ladies
and gentlemen
behave if it hadn’t
been for Colonel
Pickering. He always
showed me that he
felt and thought
about me as if I were
something better
than a common
flower girl.
RP English
“Perfectly charmed. Thank you.”
/pɜːfɪktli/ /ʧɑːmd / / θæŋk ju/
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8. Accents & Dialects
ACCENT:
COCKNEY DIALECT
Region:
East End London
Class:
Working Class Londoners
Etymology:
“small cock’s egg” OED, Middle
English Late 14th Century
16th Century, “Bow- Bell area”
“permanent resident of London”
(Etymology Online, n.d.)
Eliza, you are to stay
here for the next six
months learning how
to speak beautifully,
like a lady in
a florist’s shop.
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9. Accents & Dialects
Geordie
Northeast England
Cockney
East London
Brummie
Birmingham
Yorkshire
North England, County of York
MLE
Multicultural London
English
Posh – RP
Upper Class
Received Pronunciation
Scott - Glaswegian
Scottish Standard English
(Wales)
Scourse
Liverpool, Merseyside
The UK has over 40 dialects
(Accents Continuum)
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10. West Country
Cockney
East End London
Posh - RP
Oxfordshire
*Queens English
Estuary English
London (Thames)
Hiberno English
Ulster English
Ireland
Harry Potter Cast Dialect
Diversity
Each character speaks a different
dialect representing regions in the UK
Accents & Dialects
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11. Accents & Dialects
Works Cited
Simple
phonetics.
The Science
of Speech.
Dashakub. (2014, March 25). The cockney dialect. StArt Linguistics.
https://startlinguistics.wordpress.com/2014/03/25/the-cockney-dialect/.
Etymology Online. N.D. Retrieved from: https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=Cockney
Wikipedia. N.D. Retrieved from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockney
Tom, F. (2020, February 20). 10 British dialects you need to know.
https://www.ef.com/wwen/blog/language/british-dialects-you-need-to-know/.
Warner Bros. Pictures. (1964). My Fair Lady. United States.
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