In an effort to preserve the Cockney dialect, Bank Machine (the leading supplier of ATMs in Britain) has rolled out a machine with a Cockney language option. They also plan on launching language options for Brummie, Geordie, Scouse, and Scots language customers.

Well, I guess not language, since they all speak English, but accent? Phrasing? However you’d like to describe these tongues, the goal is to preserve the traditional way and method of speech that has been dying out in an increasingly homogenized Great Britain. It’s kind of like if there was a cash machine with Southern, Ebonics, and Yinglish phrase options. I’m not sure anyone would use these choices, but the coding should be simple.

I mean, they already code ATMS for Spanish, Russian, and Vietnamese (in my area anyway), so why not just go crazy and add as many language options as there are buttons? English teachers might go crazy at the bad grammar most dialects seem to embrace in an attempt to be different from the mother tongue, but it won’t be as bad for the written word as texting has been.

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