How London’s Speech Is Changing Over Generations…



by TheThrowYardsAway

10 comments
  1. Does he predict an accent 15 years in the future? I’d like to hear it.

    Perhaps culture subconsciously reaches these buffers and can go no further… So a counter culture ensues..

    How long till traits of RP enter from the periphery?

  2. So they will start to sound like New Zealander South African hybrids is what I picked up from that

  3. Old white dudes trying to speak MLE will never not be hilarious. Its always some awful version of Ali G

  4. Did the average working class Londoner really speaking in a Received Pronounciation accent though?

  5. Hearing over 30s talking like a road man sounds so wrong, but here we are.

  6. He is talking “Bollocks” of course. Only a tiny percentage of toffs sound like that and with the current economic climate here in the UK I don’t perceive many of them being around for much longer. Accents will start to change to hide their wealth.

  7. Yeah this is utter nonsense. 

    The truth is, London actually has a rather diverse range of accents. Always has, and always will.

  8. More interesting then most of what you see around here – thank you for sharing

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