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Article Relevance
Everything in this article was relevant and contributed to the topic.

Article Neutrality
This article was neutral in respect to presenting facts. Certain aspects, such as the "status" section, got a bit subjective. Overall, the author seemed to have a somewhat negative viewpoint of the topic.

Citation Check
The article contains 119 citations and a full bibliography, and with few exceptions the sources date back to the last 10-20 years. A random check of the links returned good results, all except one were operational. The links consist of textbooks and academic journals.

Citation Dates
As mentioned before, except for a few instances, the sources date back to 20 years at the latest. That is considered to be up to date.

Talk Page
There is discussion on the talk page about changing words to make the article feel less negative, and also how certain phonetic concepts should be portrayed. There is also talk about diversifying the notable speakers list, to give a more complete portrait of RP English.

WikiProjects and Ratings
This article has received a rating of Good on the talk page, and is of interest to several WikiProjects including WikiProject Languages, WikiProject BBC, WikiProject England, WikiProject British Empire, WikiProject Commonwealth, and WikiProject English Language.

Comparison to Class Discussion
This article is definitely more sterile than what we discussed in class. In class, we talked about RP in a practical application manner, while this is purely academic.

Problems
Not much on the history of the language.

Look into code-switching

Code-switching
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002438410500077X

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bilingualism-language-and-cognition/article/congruence-and-welshenglish-codeswitching/5A303CFBB2853A14067844B7934C44CD

https://doi.org/10.1515/IJSL.2009.004.

Outline
Brief definition of code-switching

Examples of code switching

Welsh English as a classic case of code switching

Definition of Code Switching
As Wales has become increasingly more anglicized, the use of code-switching has become increasingly more common.

Code-switching is defined as using words or phrases from two languages in the same sentence, with one language acting as the "matrix" or base language. Code switching is distinct from the language phenomenon known as borrowing in the way that borrowed words fully integrate themselves in another language, becoming part of that language's lexicon, whereas someone who is code-switching is using two distinct languages at the same time.

Examples of Code-Switching
Welsh code-switchers fall typically into one of three categories. The first category is people who's first language is Welsh and are not the most comfortable with English, the second is the inverse, English as a first language and a lack of confidence with Welsh, and the third consists of people who's first language could be either and display competence in both languages.

Welsh and English share congruence, meaning that there is enough overlap in their structure to make them compatible for code-switching. In studies of Welsh-English code-switching, Welsh frequently acts as the matrix language with English words or phrases mixed in. A typical example of this usage would look like "dw i’n love-io soaps", which translates to "I love soaps".

Welsh English as a Classic Case of Code-Switching
Cases of code-switching can be evaluated using the Matrix Language Format, or MLF. In order for a language to be classified as a classic case of code-switching by the MLF, the matrix language must be identifiable, the majority of clauses in a sentence that uses code-switching must be identifiable and distinct, and the sentence takes the structure of the matrix language in respect to things such as subject verb order and modifiers. In a study conducted by Margaret Deuchar in 2005 on Welsh-English code-switching, 90% of tested sentences were found to be congruent with the MLF, classifying Welsh English as a classic case of code-switching.