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The rise of northern culture in the 1960s destroyed the ubiquity of received pronunciation in the media, but the rise of punk rock in the 1970s was accompanied by a dramatic new shift to an "estuary" dialect rooted in London's East End. By the 1980s the clipped tones of mockney could be heard from Glasgow to Penzance. Even the Queen it seemed was not beyond influence.

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