Ooh, Me Social Class's Dialect Is Slipping: Difference between revisions

The trope is used most often with British characters (since Great Britain has a stereotype of having social stratification by class and Received Pronunciation is ''relatively'' easy to learn), but not exclusively so.

 

 

Often used for comedic implementations of [[Sophisticated As Hell]].

 

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== Film ==

* ''[[My Fair Lady]]'': Eliza's outburst at Ascot is possibly the [[Trope Codifier]].

{{quote|"Come on, Dover, MOVE YER BLOOMIN' ARSE!"}}

 

== Live-Action Television ==

** Giles has a very dignified upper-class British accent -- except when he slips back into his old "Ripper" persona. It's most noticeable in the episode "[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S3/E06 Band Candy|Band Candy]]".

** Spike is the opposite -- he speaks with a lower-class British accent almost exclusively. But when he reads his poetry in "Not Fade Away" it begins to slip, just a bit, and we hear a little of William's upper-class origins in it.

 

== Web Comics ==

* ''[[Girl Genius]]'': [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20171206 The first time we see Trelawney Thorpe, Spark of the Realm in the actual story] (as opposed to a side-story), she's the very model of a refined lady... until she makes a private aside to Wooster. (This may be one of those comedic implementations of [[Sophisticated As Hell]].)

 

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