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- From: hairy@sloth.equinox.gen.nz (Phil Anderson)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: Standards
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- Message-ID: <725272424snx@sloth.equinox.gen.nz>
- References: <BzMtxB.F8w@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 08:33:44 GMT
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- In article <BzMtxB.F8w@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
- mmmirash@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu writes:
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- > significant change in standards of speech. Whatever minor change
- > occurs, can be accommodated. The new monarch will constitute the
- > standard. If the British reject the monarch as a standard, then
- > the BBC will be the standard.
-
- Good sir, I have a few small questions for you. Could you enlighten me
- as to when the monarch's style of speech became the standard for
- English usage, what the standard was before that, and why the change
- occurred? (I presume it happened some time this century.)
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