Chapter 8 - The Echoes of An English Voice

Between the Battle of Waterloo (1815) and the outbreak of the American Civil War (1861) some ____________ million people left the British Islands by tangle of motives, personal, economic, or social

• six

• seven

• eight

• nine

¨_________¨ accent among officers and imperial civil servants associated to upper class and aristocrats.

• Geordie

• Posh

• Cockney

• RP

¨_________¨ accent among the tropos, or tommies who dealt with convicts and lower classes.

• Cockney

• Posh

• RP

• Geordie

The ¨___________¨ dialect is associated with London accent and the Cockney Rhyming Slang.

• RP

• Posh

• Cockney

• Geordie

Cockney is only truly spoken in a one small area of East ___________.

• Liverpool

• London

• Bristol

• Cardiff

A Londondoer funeral furnisher ´___________´ kept a diary and his spellings were: ¨half¨ is spoken as alffe; ¨Hampton¨ is Ampton; ¨trust¨ as frust.

• Sir Alex Hutts

• Henry Machyn

• Henry McRich

• Peter Lond

Henry Machyn’s English had its roots in the _______ regions of East Mercia, East Anglia, and Kent; it was the speech of the working Londoner.

• Northern Ireland

• Anglo-Saxon

• Southern Ireland

• French

•A cockney was merely a lower-class Londoner who spoke the city´s language.

• True

• False

The __________ era, with their emphasis on ¨correct English¨ isolated the speech of the working class.

• Elizabethan

• Victorian

• Henry IV

What does "RP" stand for?

• Received Pronunciation

• Recognized Principles

• Received Products