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- From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: Standards
- Message-ID: <12223@kesson.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 14:27:30 GMT
- References: <BzJtqF.D8L@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> <1992Dec21.052204.9530@news.columbia.edu> <BzMtxB.F8w@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> <38068@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu>
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- In article <38068@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu> djohns@elm.circa.ufl.edu (David A. Johns) writes:
- >Mandar, you aren't really naive enough to think that "The Queen's
- >English" means English as spoken by the queen, are you?
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- It may very well be the same thing. I've heard Mrs Elizabeth Windsor
- on the radio, and she certainly sounds as though she has been trained
- to speak the Queen's English.
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- >The "common characteristics of the English accent" wouldn't fit in a thimble.
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- Of course they would. Do you mean that they wouldn't fill a thimble?
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