This is the most disgustingly vile piece of classist snobbery I have ever read here.
Poor people aren’t clever enough to sound like us. Pity them for the area in which they live. Laugh at them in private though, but pretend to be kind to their faces.
I’m poor.
I’m working class.
I grew up on a council estate.
I sound like the rest of my family.
Laughably I’ve been accused of having a posh accent, which just shows that the accuser has never actually met any posh people. I don’t sound posh. I sound like everyone else who grew up in NW London at that time. Although I was born just over 50 years ago I have the same accent as my grandmother and great-grandmother.
They weren’t posh people, they were in service and worked in factories packing bombs. They did the work no one else wanted to do, certainly not posh people whose women tended not to work at all. And they sounded the same as me.
The ‘mockney’ accent now associated with London wasn’t common even 50 or 60 years ago. It’s an affectation born from a corruption of the Cockney accent which used to be confined to the East End when it was a true regional accent.
But yes, of course, be naice and kind, to the poor as you throw them a few crumbs of courtesy. They’re not the same as us, they don’t have the finances to speak properly, they can’t afford to say aitch, they’re too poor to understand grammar. But don’t worry, darling, we’ll make sure you grow up sounding moneyed.
You don’t have to pay a fee to use the word were in place of was.
It’s just as easy and affordable for a poor person to say we were laughed at for our lack of wealth as it is to say we was laughed at.
Why do you equate poor speech and grammar with low incomes? What do you think will happen if you suddenly lose all your money - will your children instantly develop glottal stops and the inability to pronounce the first letter of Harry?
Really???