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standard English



Dear Lee,

   Discussions of "standard English" are chimerical. We have no Academy
of the English Language. There are only greater or lesser numbers of
people, geographically dispersed, speaking different dialects of English.
If American English (not a uniform dialect in itself, of course, even if
you restrict the field to English in the United States) has numerical
priority, British English (likewise heterogeneous) has historical
priority. So we can spar endlessly.

Hands across the sea...

Carlo Caballero