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====Scotland==== Studies have indicated that working-class adolescents in areas such as [[Glasgow]] have begun to use certain aspects of Cockney and other Anglicisms in their speech.<ref>[http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20091213155241/http://www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/ViewAwardPage.aspx?AwardId=1892 Is TV a contributory factor in accent change in adolescents?] β ''ESRC Society Today''</ref> infiltrating the traditional [[Glasgow patter]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/smgpubs/access/571152461.html?did=571152461&FMT=ABS&FMTS=FT&date=Mar%2B4,%2B2004&author=&desc=Cockney%2Bcreep%2Bputs%2Bpaid%2Bto%2Bthe%2Bpatter |title=Cockney creep puts paid to the patter β "Evening Times" |publisher=Pqasb.pqarchiver.com |date=4 March 2004 |access-date=21 January 2013 |archive-date=16 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130316042955/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/smgpubs/access/571152461.html?did=571152461&FMT=ABS&FMTS=FT&date=Mar%2B4,%2B2004&author=&desc=Cockney%2Bcreep%2Bputs%2Bpaid%2Bto%2Bthe%2Bpatter |url-status=dead }}</ref> For example, ''TH''-fronting is commonly found, and typical [[Scottish English|Scottish]] features such as the postvocalic {{IPA|/r/}} are reduced.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/117980167/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130105064601/http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/117980167/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 January 2013 |title='Talkin' Jockney'? Variation and change in Glaswegian accent| doi = 10.1111/j.1467-9841.2007.00319.x|date=17 April 2007 |access-date=1 October 2010|volume=11|journal=Journal of Sociolinguistics|pages=221β260|last1 = Stuart-Smith|first1 = Jane|last2 = Timmins|first2 = Claire|last3 = Tweedie|first3 = Fiona|issue = 2|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Research suggests the use of [[English English|English]] speech characteristics is likely to be a result of the influence of London and [[South East England]] accents featuring heavily on television, such as the popular BBC One soap opera ''[[EastEnders]]''.<ref name="news.bbc.co.uk" /><ref name="We fink, so we are from Glasgow" /><ref name="Scots kids rabbitin' like Cockneys" /><ref name="arts.gla.ac.uk" /> However, such claims have been criticised.<ref>''A Handbook of Varieties of English'', Volume 1, p. 185.</ref>
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