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Describe the different attitudes to the Liverpool regional accent, both positive and negative.
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Describe the different attitudes to the Liverpool regional accent, both positive and negative. There are many accents, which are familiar to us all, ranging from the Irish to the Birmingham accent. Everyone has their own opinions about these accents, especially the Liverpool accent. This is an accent that you either love or hate. Accents and dialects are very different. An accent is the way the language is pronounced and its characteristics of a region or social group. Whereas a dialect is the distinctive vocabulary and grammatical constructions used in an area within a language community. For example there is a Liverpool accent and the dialect that they use is very different as they use words such as, 'like' very often in sentences. The Liverpool accent is very popular, for both, negative and positive reasons. The people of Liverpool fell they are being discriminated against because of their strong regional accent. This...
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