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A Scottish Butler in an English Mansion Says to the Lady

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A Scottish butler in an English mansion says to the lady of the house,"You may wish to stay inside today,Madam;it's quite cold outside." But when he goes back to his own cottage,he is likely to say to his wife in broad Scots,"Shut the door and get inside,Maggie;you'll freeze your buns off." In linguistics,what is this an example of?


A) code switching
B) class consciousness
C) glottochronology
D) phonological analysis

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