... forms have been identified, it is possible to see the surrounding arguments, which agree that people should change their accents and dialects to these forms. For example, many would argue that Received Pronunciation and Standard English make people more equal. This developed in public schools due to the fact that when they started to admit the middle classes, they didn't want to create a class divide. Therefore if everyone spoke in a more prestigious form, it would leave no connotations about your identity, social background or geographical origins. In conjunction with this is also the fact that accents and dialects can be used as a way of stereotyping people. For example, due to the industrial crisis, which happened in Liverpool means, that a stereotype about all people from there has arisen of them being untrustworthy, criminals. The same type of stereotyping has happened in rural areas such as Norfolk where ...

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