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Old 14th January 2018, 03:28   #18  |  Link
LemMotlow
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Does this mean that people from India, Canada and Australia who speak English-sounding sentences and vocabulary don't speak "English"?
I always described the language spoken by people from Great Britain and its English-sounding neighbors as being "variations of British". The last real "English" media I listened to was a reading from Shakespeare pronounced in the original Elizabethan, which sounded like a mix from Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. It certainly didn't sound like Windsor Castle. Which leads me to ask, do people from Liverpool and York speak English?

Many of my fellow Americans don't speak a very grammatical or sanitary version of the English language. They don't even use good American. Politicians and marketing majors are among the worst offenders. I often read the writings of Winston Churchill so that I can hear in my mind the way the Queen's English should ideally flow today.

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