Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site terak.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!hao!noao!terak!suze From: suze@terak.UUCP (Suzanne Barnett) Newsgroups: net.followup,net.nlang Subject: Re: Re: literacy Message-ID: <842@terak.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 10:58:00 EST Article-I.D.: terak.842 Posted: Fri Nov 1 10:58:00 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Nov-85 05:03:39 EST References: <747@cyb-eng.UUCP> <1900005@datacube.UUCP> <2260@iddic.UUCP> <670@stc-b.stc.UUCP> Organization: Calcomp Display Products Division, Scottsdale, AZ, USA Lines: 18 Xref: linus net.followup:4530 net.nlang:3380 > 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 uucp: ...{decvax,ihnp4,noao,savax,seismo}!terak!suze phone: (602) 998-4800 us mail: CalComp/Sanders Display Products Division (Formerly Terak Corporation) 14151 N 76th street, Scottsdale, AZ 85260