Year 8 Accent And Dialect

Identifying the Wiltshire accent and dialect

Standard English spider a truant to cut to argue pork noise

Wiltshire dialect pig-meat caddle attercop berry-moucher arg agg

What

are the definitions of the following? 2)Accent 3)Dialect 4)Slang 5)Standard English Which of the above are examples of non-standard English?

Read

the extract ‘It shouldn’t happen to a vet’ Identify how the Wiltshire accent is presented – through the non-standard spelling of words to represent the sound Identify how Wiltshire dialect is presented – where words are different to Standard English (only four in entire text)

Choose

two sentences from the passage that present examples of both the Wiltshire accent and dialect

Write

these on the back of the sheet into Standard English