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Listed below are comments made by U13793640 between Thursday, 22nd January 2009 and Thursday, 22nd January 2009.

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Beryl Bainbridge and the Liverpool accent. 5:51pm on 22 Jan 2009 Beryl Bainbridge is right to say that the Liverpool accent has changed over the years, but wrong to say it's all down to the lack of elocution lessons (150 years ago most Liverpool kids didn't go to school, let alone take elocution lessons!).

The scouse accent is apparently little over 100 years old. Until then there were separate Lancashire, Welsh, Irish and other communities, each with their own accent. It's only when social mixing began to occur in the late 1900s that the scouse accent came about, and as your next interviewee pointed out there are still many variants across the city. And it's still developing.

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