30 September,2016 09:00 AM IST | | Agencies
The so-called Queen’s English is on its way out as migration and machines bring in different accents and sounds, a new report said yesterday
The study notes that the Queen's English may well be out by the time her grandson Prince George ascends the throne. Pic/AFP
London: The so-called Queen's English is on its way out as migration and machines bring in different accents and sounds, a new report said yesterday.
âThe Sounds of 2066' report by the University of York believes the English spoken by Prince George, third in line to Britain's throne, will be very different from the one spoken by his great grandmother Queen Elizabeth II because age has become more important than class in driving the change in dialects.
"The Queen's English spoken by Prince George as he grows up is not going to be the same as the Queen's English spoken by the Queen," said Dominic Watt, lecturer in forensic speech science at the University of York and author of the report.
The report also suggested that "talking to machines and listening to Americans" will soon kill off regional accents and phrases and lead to a more universally informal spoken English.
