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Read the passage and fill in each gap with ONE suitable word.
In British English this standard accent is known as R.P. or Received Pronunciation. This coupled with the sort of English described in grammar books is the accepted (1) _____. Its use, however, is restricted (2) ______ geographically and socially; it is most (3) _____ used among the middle classes in the south of England. Its speakers, (4) _____, carry both a geographical and (5) _____ label, as do the speakers of all its variants, although the more socially mobile someone is the more complex his accent becomes, and so the more (6) ____ he is to label. Attitudes towards this vary, from the parents (7) _____ train their children not to speak with a local (8) _____ so that “they will have a better chance in life", to the liberal, trendy young manager who adopts a local accent (9) _____ a form of inverted snobbery. But these stances are extreme, but, nevertheless, the (10) _____ between language and social status is a potentially explosive subject in British society.
In British English this standard accent is known as R.P. or Received Pronunciation. This coupled with the sort of English described in grammar books is the accepted (1) _____. Its use, however, is restricted (2) ______ geographically and socially; it is most (3) _____ used among the middle classes in the south of England. Its speakers, (4) _____, carry both a geographical and (5) _____ label, as do the speakers of all its variants, although the more socially mobile someone is the more complex his accent becomes, and so the more (6) ____ he is to label. Attitudes towards this vary, from the parents (7) _____ train their children not to speak with a local (8) _____ so that “they will have a better chance in life", to the liberal, trendy young manager who adopts a local accent (9) _____ a form of inverted snobbery. But these stances are extreme, but, nevertheless, the (10) _____ between language and social status is a potentially explosive subject in British society.