Thanks Dave! I just used the Rayner one, along with Peter Trudgill's response - which can be found near the bottom of this lovely page
by Friends of the Norfolk Dialect Society http://www.norfolkdialect.com/speakingmore.htm, under 21 Nov 2016 entry - last week in
my first-year sociolinguistics class. I think they took it on board and liked it, though as it was 9am it was hard to tell!
-plp-
Peter L Patrick
Dept. of Language and Linguistics
University of Essex
Colchester
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Subject: Leanne Wood told to 'moderate' Rhondda Welsh accent
"Ms Wood, who posted the email to a Facebook page, told followers: "I'm not prepared to pretend to be something I'm not.
"If people don't like it, they can stick it." "
Full article here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-39076393
Note for teaching purposes: this could be nicely compared to the article I circulated last month about Angela Rayner MP, from Stockport in Greater Manchester:
https://goo.gl/GnI5uw.
Both articles are pretty anecdotal, but interesting in-roads for discussion and reading more substantial research.
Since I'm here, I might as well repeat the other links I gave about trainee teachers:
https://goo.gl/mqDHVx - based on research by Alex Baratta (listed here:
https://goo.gl/DGC6Gl).
And the articles by Andrew Morrison (https://goo.gl/3MVI4W), a colleague of mine here at Sheffield Hallam, conducted among Education Studies undergraduates in south Wales:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038038514546663 (free pre-print version:
http://shura.shu.ac.uk/9724/); http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13639080.2012.742178.
Dave
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