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27th October 08, 10:26 AM
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In Ulster you have additional confusion (or perhaps it is only me who is confused) as to which labels are attached to the Ulster versions of Scots and of Scots Gaelic. I think they may have both been referred to in that bill, but I'm not sure which one was which!
As to standard English, we are conversing in it, but there's no agreement as to what it is. One thing it is not is the London dialect of English. What is defined as Standard English in the UK appears to be something spoken around Oxford, but even that has me puzzled, as it is precisely there that the 'home counties' dialect gives way to both the 'midlands' dialect and the 'west country' dialect. In the Oxfordshire town where my wife came from all three were spoken by different people, although perhaps many had moved there from somewhere else. Probably there actually is nowhere in England where there are any real people that actually speak Standard English. As for defining Standard English as something spoken somewhere in America, I simply find that idea utterly ludicrous, although American linguists do so, and somehow manage to do it with a straight face.
Probably the only agreed definition of Standard English is that is not Scots, LOL!
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