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  1. Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!gtoal
  3. From: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
  4. Subject: Re: An apology
  5. Message-ID: <C019FG.83B@demon.co.uk>
  6. Sender: news@demon.co.uk
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: pizzabox.demon.co.uk
  8. Organization: Cuddlehogs Anonymous
  9. References: <BzMx61.HEq@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> <1992Dec29.053058.29564@Princeton.EDU> <1992Dec29.070305.26332@news.columbia.edu>
  10. Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 18:16:26 GMT
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  13. In article <1992Dec29.070305.26332@news.columbia.edu> gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener) writes:
  14. :Oh Roger, come on.  You know better than that.  Mandar has given us
  15. :three standards already in descending order of preference:
  16. :
  17. :    - The "common elements" of an English accent
  18. :    - The English spoken by the Queen
  19. :    - The English spoken by the BBC
  20. :
  21. :If England were to disappear, you can bet he'd make up another.
  22.  
  23. I suspect what he really considers 'proper English' is that spoken by
  24. public-school-educated Indians, and probably thinks the Queen and the
  25. (old-style) BBC offer a sufficiently close approximation to be acceptable.
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