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South, such as Norfolk, Virginia, and Charleston, South Carolina, maintained strong commercial and cultural ties to southern England around London. Thus, as the upper-class standard dialect around London changed, some of its features were mirrored by: the dialects of upper-class Americans in eastern Virginia and the Charleston area, followed by the dialects of the surrounding regions in general, regardless of socioeconomic class. One such example

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