Local accents in England and Wales

@article{Wells1970LocalAI,
  title={Local accents in England and Wales},
  author={John C. Wells},
  journal={Journal of Linguistics},
  year={1970},
  volume={6},
  pages={231 - 252},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:143523909}
}
1. Dialectologists in England have concentrated on the speech of small and relatively isolated rural communities (see, for example, Orton and Dieth, 1962: Introduction, 14). Other linguists and phoneticians concerned with the English of England have almost without exception described Standard English and the form of pronunciation they call, using an established but less than happy term, ‘Received Pronunciation’ (Jones, 1967:xvii). Yet the English of most English (and English-speaking Welsh… 
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