As in every dialec studies, only certain features of language used are treated as relevant in the analysis of social dialects. These features are pronunciations,words of structures that are regularly used in one form by working class speakers and in another form by middle class speakers. In Edinburgh, Scotland, for example, the Word home is regularly pronunced as [he:m], as if rhymnig with name, among lower-working-class speakers, and as [ho:m], as if rhyming with foam, among lower-middle-class speakers. It i a mal difference in pronuanciation, but it is an indicator of social status. A
As in every dialec studies, only certain features of language used are treated as relevant in the analysis of social dialects. These features are pronunciations,words of structures that are regularly used in one form by working class speakers and in another form by middle class speakers. In Edinburgh, Scotland, for example, the Word home is regularly pronunced as [he:m], as if rhymnig with name, among lower-working-class speakers, and as [ho:m], as if rhyming with foam, among lower-middle-class speakers. It i a mal difference in pronuanciation, but it is an indicator of social status. A