On 14/06/2021 07:29 pm, #Paul wrote:

JNugent wrote:

[in response to:]
Nope, dialects are different.

Indeed they are and this affectation is NOT a dialect.

It may not be a dialect, but I'm not sure that there's
any indication it's an affectation either:

affectation: speech or conduct not natural to oneself :
an unnatural form of behavior meant especially to
impress others.

"behaviour"?

However annoying you might find it, if it is a natural part
of the way they happen to speak, and not one chosen deliberately
by them, it isn't an affectation.

They are copying it from others (whether in the media or in their peer
groups - or both). It hasn't arisen naturally and would not do so in a
country such as the UK