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Accents on social media
Here Dr George Bailey talks about how people use spelling to represent their accents on social media.
Here Dr George Bailey talks about how people use spelling to represent their accents on social media.
How do you write on social media and how does this compare to how you speak, or to how you write in emails and other more formal contexts? Do you ever use non-standard spelling to represent your accent?
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An Introduction to Sociolinguistics: Accents, Attitudes and Identity
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