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From: suze@terak.UUCP (Suzanne Barnett)
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Subject: Re: Re: literacy
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Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 10:58:00 EST
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> 	A lot of this is now vanishing (thank you BBC), but it is annoying
> 	when local peculiarities are broadcast as ``standard english''.

How bland if there were no different accents to a spoken language.
And who is to say that one is more correct than another?

Though I agree on actually mispronounced words. I was taught
that the proper way to pronounce a place or name is the same
as the inhabitants or the named person (or its owners', if its
an animal,) pronounces it.
-- 
Suzanne Barnett-Scott

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