“I’m just going down the apples & pears to get a cup of tea from the kitchen”. What do you think is the meaning of apples & pears?

A historical process whereby varieties of a language lose specifically local features and become less regionally bound.

[ˈfɑːvə] the word being pronounced is________.

Culturally, it often refers to working class Londoners, particularly those in the East End.

Match the following terms with the pictures that they are referring to.

It is said that language was spread when the speakers of Proto-Indo-European overpowered earlier inhabitants through the use of horses, the wheel, and established trade routes.

The process in which a language moves through migration. The action of spreading may happen in many directions. 

It was invented in London in the 1840s by market traders, costermongers (sellers of fruit and vegetables from handcarts) and street hawkers. It was probably first used as a cant - a language designed to disguise what was being said from passersby.