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1.	g-drop trends		As class status "rises", g-dropping "falls". Casual speech the most, reading the least. Men more informal in general.
2.	Pygmalion		"Impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him." By George Bernard Shaw
3.	g-dropping history		-inde/-ende to -ung to -ing Started with g's dropped, and the addition of G was the new pattern. Eventually became norm.
4.	register vs. genre		- Genre refers more to "socially conventionalized kinds of text" - Register: a subset of language that is used by a speaker for a specific purpose; spoken style (e.g. formal versus informal) depending on the speaker's attitude, not the communicative type
5.	George Bernard Shaw		- wrote Pygmalion - Saw class differences as "superficial and modifiable," not essential - believed they did not distinguish one as a class, and could "rise above" it
6.	variation due to register		- phone conversation vs. article vs. advertisement - Biber created chart mapping different categories