Regional Dialect

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a bairn

•Where would you see the non-standard pluralisation of ‘you’ to yous’?

•What would be the standard form of the following? ‘So I gets out of the car and I says…’

•What would the non-standard  be of the following in the south-west? 'Where is he?'

•Some dialects still retain ‘thee’ and thou’ as address forms for ‘you’. Where might this happen?

•Regional dialect grammar can additionally see the non-standard use of ‘hisself’ and ‘theirselves’ as well as the standard, ‘myself’ and ‘yourself’. What sorts of pronouns are these classed as?

Which regional dialect example uses a relative pronoun (you learnt this as relativeizer) in a non-standard way?

The verb form ‘to be’ can be used in a variety of non-standard ways. How might this verb form be spoken in Cockney?

'Ten while twelve' might be a typical dialect feature of which region?