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relies on a single source from 1875 that is focused on lexical features ("provincialisms") without any commentary on accent whatsoever and without page specifics; beyond that, this section is hard to read, only somewhat following
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English in the 19th century, then southern England encompassed multiple distinct dialect continuums, with a dialect in the far west of the region likely being mutually unintelligible to a dialect in the far west of
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England and replace them all with redirects to higher level summary articles like this one. I've now reverted those deletions but, in
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Unfortunately this article doesn't do that, and seems to be in a real muddle due to lots of conflicting edits over the years. The distinction between modern dialects and historic (largely extinct) dialects is missing, references often don't provide sources for what the citations claim, and the
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English as currently spoken, southern England makes sense as a region as there are a
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I don't see this "conflation" between historic and present dialects you're concerned about. It seems very clear to me. One section ("19th-century Essex, Kent, Sussex, and Surrey
English") covers historic dialects of the South; all the rest cover modern dialects. What's the confusion?
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