Are you ‘happee’ or are you ‘happeh?’ Study links accents to social classes
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Our accents give away more about social class than we think, according to new research led by Lancaster University. The new sociolinguistic study focusing on Mancunian accents, published in the journal, Language Variation and Change, shows that the final vowel in words like happy, baby, chilly and city—known to linguists as “the happy vowel”—varies clearly […]