When we moved here my children were still in infant school. The local usage they came back with was 'can I lend a xxx' meaning either 'will you lend me a xxx' or 'may I borrow a xxx'. Even my wife started adopting local usage. :(
Not 'entertainment'. News and so on. Informational programs should not be hosted by people who obviously lack the ability to speak grammatically correct english in a clear voice.If their information on grammar is patently incorrect, what does that say for their information on anything else?
I dont pull ma breeks on in the morning either, or britches for that matter.
Dialect words may or may not gain or lose common parlance. Swine has been replaced by pig almost exclusively, as pigs became the business of thos who used the sort of scandinavian derived dialects..the loss of french pronunciation as the sway of the original norman conquest 'upper classes' has diminished. this is all fine enough.
What is not fine, is the sea of ambiguity that now threatens to rob language of comprehensibility and precise meaning.
And the attendant attitude that this actually doesn't MATTER.
Punctuation has a HUGE impact on meaning.
Spelling distinguishes homonyms.
One received pronunciation may not be everyone's common speech, but it does provide a single standard that can be used unambiguously as a single means of converse with ambiguity removed.
You may feel that since no one has anything worth saying anymore, how you say it is irrelevant: I don't ascribe to that view. The clipped tones of the military are not mere affectation: they are there to allow precise unambiguous orders to be given in conditions of high background noise, for example.
When a bit lost in Wales I came across a small reservoir that was shown on the map but the name on the sign was Dwr Cymru and most of them seem to be called that - most confusing.
(Found out later that it means 'Birmingham's Water').
Saying 'gorra lorra cash' rather than 'is financially well endowed' is at one level, a dialectical exercise, but is not an *accented* form of 'Got a lot of cash'.
It's a bastardised format. And may well be unintelligible to anyone not used to it.
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