Saying no to "gizit" is plain prejudice

A 2013 contribution to The Independent by sociolinguist Julia Snell, arguing against the sentiments in a letter by a teacher in a primary school in Teesside, U.K. that students should remove features of Teesside dialect from their spoken speech in order to succeed in school.

Posted by Kara Becker on February 10, 2013

Tags:
British English;
Stigma;
Standard Language Ideology

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