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* ''Series/KeepingUpAppearances:'' Hyacinth the SocialClimber works hard at her [[IAmVeryBritish Received Pronunciation]] to cover her naturally Midlands accent, [[AccentSlipUp which nevertheless can slip through when she's flustered]].

* A common trope in Mexican Telenovelas is the use of this trope to distinguish the high class characters that either use a snobbish accent to speak (specially for fun) against the lower class characters that tends to use a "chilango" accent to make more noticeable its low education. One big example is Carrusel where high and low class students are in the same classroom and you can distinguish who is rich or poor just by hearing them speaking.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqD_UXXKlIg This advert]] for Heineken parodies ''Theatre/MyFairLady'', with a tutor (played by Bryan Pringle) with the "School of Street Credibility" attempting to teach a very posh young lady (played by Sylvestra Le Touzel) to say "The water in Majorca don't taste like how it ought to" in a Cockney accent (in which, unlike her RP accent, "water", "Majorca" and "ought to" all rhyme). She can't manage it until she's given a beer to drink.

* ''Series/LawAndOrder'': Pretty much all the American iterations set in New York have beat cops portrayed as working-class with broad New York City accents and most of the detectives as middle-class with neutral ones. Sometimes this is justified, as not all of the detectives are New York City natives ([[Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit Amanda Rollins]], for instance, is from Georgia). But most are, and it's an interesting idiosyncratic choice, since most of the detectives started out as beat cops. Aversions tend to be male, most notably Lenny Briscoe of [[Series/LawAndOrder the original series]], Dominick "Sonny" Carisi and Nick Amaro from ''[[Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit SVU]]'' and Bobby Goren of ''[[Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent Criminal Intent]]'', though his only comes out when he's angry. In each case, the accent plays into their characters, all of whom are more [[BrooklynRage rough-around-the-edges]] in various ways from their colleagues with more neutral accents.

* ''Series/LawAndOrder'': Pretty much all the American iterations set in New York have beat cops portrayed as working-class with broad New York City accents and most of the detectives as middle-class with neutral ones. Sometimes this is justified, as not all of the detectives are New York City natives ([[Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit Amanda Rollins]], for instance, is from Georgia). But most are, and it's an interesting idiosyncratic choice, since most of the detectives started out as beat cops. Aversions tend to be male, most notably Lenny Briscoe of [[Series/LawAndOrder the original series]], Dominick "Sonny" Carisi and Nick Amaro from ''[[Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit SVU]]'' and Bobby Goren of ''[[Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent Criminal Intent]], though his only comes out when he's angry. In each case, the accent plays into their characters, all of whom are more [[BrooklynRage rough-around-the-edges]] in various ways from their colleagues with more neutral accents.

* ''Series/LawAndOrder'': Pretty much all the iterations have beat cops portrayed as working-class with BrooklynRage accents, while most of the detectives as middle-class with neutral ones. Sometimes this is justified, as not all of the detectives are New York City natives ([[Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit Amanda Rollins]], for instance, is from Georgia). But many are, and it's an interesting idiosyncratic choice, since most of the detectives started out as beat cops. Averted in ''[[Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit SVU]]'' by Dominick "Sonny" Carisi, who has a thick Staten Island accent at all times, and occasionally in ''[[Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent Criminal Intent]]'' by Bobby Goren, whose Brooklyn accent comes out when he's angry.

* ''Series/LawAndOrder'': Pretty much all the iterations have beat cops portrayed as working-class with BrooklynRage accents, while most of the detectives as middle-class with neutral ones. Sometimes this is justified, as not all of the detectives are New York City natives ([[Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit Amanda Rollins]], for instance, is from Georgia). But many are, and it's an interesting idiosyncratic choice, since most of the detectives started out as beat cops. Averted in ''[[Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit SVU'']] by Dominick "Sonny" Carisi, who has a thick Staten Island accent at all times, and occasionally in ''[[Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent Criminal Intent]]'' by Bobby Goren, whose Brooklyn accent comes out when he's angry.

* ''Series/LawAndOrder'': Pretty much all the iterations have beat cops portrayed as working-class with BrooklynRage accents, while most of the detectives as middle-class with neutral ones. Sometimes this is justified, as not all of the detectives are New York City natives ([[Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit Amanda Rollins]], for instance, is from Georgia). But many are, and it's an interesting idiosyncratic choice, since most of the detectives started out as beat cops. Averted in ''[[Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit SVU'' by Dominick "Sonny" Carisi, who has a thick Staten Island accent at all times, and occasionally in ''[[Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent Criminal Intent]]'' by Bobby Goren, whose Brooklyn accent comes out when he's angry.

** Upper-class characters speak with [[IAmVeryBritish Received Pronunciation]] or a UsefulNotes/HomeCounties accent. Working-class characters speak with Cockney accents, or with increasingly rougher accents the farther away they grew up from London and its environs.

* In ''Literature/TheBelgariad'', poorer Arends have the "Wacite brogue", basically a Scottish or Irish accent, while the Mimbrate Knights use FloweryElizabethanEnglish. Ironically, Wacune was the wealthiest duchy in Arendia back before its capital, Vo Wacune, was razed by the Asturians.

** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E1NewEarth New Earth]]", [[EvilBrit Lady Cassandra]] pulls a GrandTheftMe on Rose, and one of the first {{Out Of Character Alert}}s that tips the Doctor off is that Cassandra, who speaks with an upper-class RP accent, is [[OohMeAccentsSlipping really bad at trying to do Rose's normal Cockney accent,]] complete with a stab at BritishEnglish/CockneyRhymingSlang, which Rose never uses anyway. Ironically, Cassandra's RP is much closer to Creator/BilliePiper's natural accent than Rose's Cockney.