Leeman, Britain et al, dialects all

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Apps asks Britons to select how many different words for what they call things ?

26

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To do what ?

Guess which part of the country they were from ?

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How many people ?

30,000

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From how many locations ?

4,000

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Found that English dialects are….

Losing variation

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More regions adopt….

Southern, standard pronunciation

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With some pockets of….

Resistance in the north

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Which northern cities ?

Newcastle and Sunderland

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Continued to use local words e.g…..

“Spelk” instead of standard English “splinter”