Don’t deploy slang, posh is better by far
Don’t drop your aitches or mispronounce the schwa
It ain’t me, it’s my working-class repertoire
Don’t say ‘bruvver’, it’s ‘brother’; it’s ‘mother’, not ‘ma’
Try to sound a little more, well, lah-di-dah
It ain’t me, it’s my working-class repertoire
Don’t speak Sylheti, Farsi, or Yoruba
Don’t translanguage – you’re not in Catalonia
It ain’t me, it’s my working-class repertoire
Don’t cleave the English language in bloody half
Don’t treat speech like a linguistic abbatoir
It ain’t me, it’s my working-class repertoire
See whether you can speak like a fine cigar
On this subject see Gonzalez & Pujolar –
It ain’t me, it’s my working-class repertoire
Don’t read The Sun, why not try The Telegraph
Don’t treat language like you live in the public bar
It ain’t me, it’s my working-class repertoire
Don’t give me that vernacular blah-blah-blah
Leave it at home with your Burberry cap and scarf
It ain’t me, it’s my working-class repertoire
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