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East End memories from Essex

Last week, I spoke to husband and wife Richard and Janice in Colchester, Essex. Janice was born and raised in Tower Hamlets and remembers a blissful childhood there. When she was eleven, her family moved to Loughton, Essex, where teachers gave her a hard time for her Cockney accent. Now she would call her ownContinue reading “East End memories from Essex”

First interview bagged!

Today, I sat down with Caitlin, a PhD student from Queen Mary and true Hackney girl. We covered a lot of (London) ground from her experiences at a Hackney primary school to how her formerly MLE accent became Americanized during her undergraduate studies in the US. And of course, I got to ALL ask myContinue reading “First interview bagged!”

Information for participants

In linguistic research, the analysis of language is normally done by trained linguists on the basis of (transcribed) audio recordings. This study explicitly focusses on the knowledge and ideas you have about London dialects – simply by virtue of growing up in this speech community and hearing people around you. In other words, in thisContinue reading “Information for participants”