[i]"Lizzie Cornish" wrote: "And as for 'over-paid soccer stars and prancing teens' that's not 'off-target AT ALL, it's bang right up to date and hitting the bullseye over and over. Just this morning I woke up to hear of some new Soccer Star (Star??) being transferred for £25 million..yes MILLION!"

"Scrump" wrote And the "prancing teens"? Where do they come into it? :-)

I obviously didn't express myself very well - I just meant that ranting about soccer stars being overpaid has - as far as I can see - folk-all to do with the main target of the song, i.e. the loss of English identity and culture.[/i]

Come to that, the spread of one particular accent isn't about the loss of English identity either. Loss of REGIONAL identity, maybe. And, if there is a 'generic' accent that is spreading nationwide, it's not 'estuary' anyway - it's, I don't know what to call it, 'Jamaican Cockney?' Ali G? The one with all the 'innits' anyway.