Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The Surrey dialect is a dialect of the English language that was once widely spoken by those living in the historic county of Surrey in southern England. The distinctive vocabulary of the Surrey dialect has now almost entirely died out and only few individuals still speak with a local Surrey accent.The Surrey dialect is a subset of the Southern English dialect group. It was recorded by Granville Leveson Gower (1838–1895) during the 1870s and first published by him in A Glossary of Surrey Words in 1893. The dialect has been described as being spoken beyond the bounds of the traditional borders of Surrey in western Kent and parts of northern Sussex.Gower was first made aware of the dialect after reading a letter in a local newspaper. Following that, and after his own enquiries, he expressed a fear that improved transport and the spread of education would cause such local dialects to disappear and be forgotten despite the fact that, in his words, \"Old customs, old beliefs, old prejudices die hard in the soil of England\"."@en }
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- Surrey_dialect abstract "The Surrey dialect is a dialect of the English language that was once widely spoken by those living in the historic county of Surrey in southern England. The distinctive vocabulary of the Surrey dialect has now almost entirely died out and only few individuals still speak with a local Surrey accent.The Surrey dialect is a subset of the Southern English dialect group. It was recorded by Granville Leveson Gower (1838–1895) during the 1870s and first published by him in A Glossary of Surrey Words in 1893. The dialect has been described as being spoken beyond the bounds of the traditional borders of Surrey in western Kent and parts of northern Sussex.Gower was first made aware of the dialect after reading a letter in a local newspaper. Following that, and after his own enquiries, he expressed a fear that improved transport and the spread of education would cause such local dialects to disappear and be forgotten despite the fact that, in his words, \"Old customs, old beliefs, old prejudices die hard in the soil of England\".".