Scholarship boys speaking the dialect,
But learning subconsciously modified vowels,
Yet never quite mastering their betters’ RP,
Were humbled and felt it deep in the bowels
While striving to hang on to selfhood — DV,
Yet subtly acquiring a passable idiolect.
                                                                    e.g.
Clogger Clegg’s son trying to concentrate
Was stopped in mid-sentence by master Slim Price
For a linguistic fault of failing to aspirate
Horse, hare and hound and so had to say twice:

“He hit me on the head with a heavy hammer.”